Emulating human tissues and organs: a bioprinting perspective toward personalized medicine

AC Fonseca, FPW Melchels, MJS Ferreira… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The lack of in vitro tissue and organ models capable of mimicking human physiology
severely hinders the development and clinical translation of therapies and drugs with higher …

The physics of cellular decision making during epithelial–mesenchymal transition

S Tripathi, H Levine, MK Jolly - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process by which cells lose epithelial
traits, such as cell–cell adhesion and apico-basal polarity, and acquire migratory and …

[HTML][HTML] Preparation and characterization of nanoclay-hydrogel composite support-bath for bioprinting of complex structures

F Afghah, M Altunbek, C Dikyol, B Koc - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Three-dimensional bioprinting of cell-laden hydrogels in a sacrificial support-bath has
recently emerged as a potential solution for fabricating complex biological structures …

Rheological properties of coordinated physical gelation and chemical crosslinking in gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) hydrogels

AT Young, OC White, MA Daniele - Macromolecular bioscience, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetically modified proteins, such as gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA), are growing in
popularity for bioprinting and biofabrication. GelMA is a photocurable macromer that can …

Thiol–gelatin–norbornene bioink for laser‐based high‐definition bioprinting

A Dobos, J Van Hoorick, W Steiger… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Two‐photon polymerization (2PP) is a lithography‐based 3D printing method
allowing the fabrication of 3D structures with sub‐micrometer resolution. This work focuses …

PEG/HA hybrid hydrogels for biologically and mechanically tailorable bone marrow organoids

Q Vallmajo‐Martin, N Broguiere… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bone marrow (BM) organoids provide powerful tools to study the vital interplay between the
BM microenvironment and resident cells. Current biomaterials, however, are limited in terms …

Cell migration and breast cancer metastasis in biomimetic extracellular matrices with independently tunable stiffness

J Vasudevan, CT Lim… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The mechanics of the extracellular matrix (ECM) have long been known to have important
implications for cancer metastasis and cell migration. An atypical increase in tumor ECM …

Cellular proliferation, self-assembly, and modulation of signaling pathways in silk fibroin gelatin-based 3D bioprinted constructs

J Chakraborty, S Ghosh - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2020 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is a highly innovative and promising technology to
render precise positioning of biologics together with living cells and extracellular matrix …

Matrix stiffness-regulated cellular functions under different dimensionalities

J Zhong, Y Yang, L Liao, C Zhang - Biomaterials science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Various cues from the microenvironment in which cells live can regulate cellular functions. In
addition to biochemical cues, increasing evidence has demonstrated that mechanical cues …

Smart hydrogels for the augmentation of bone regeneration by endogenous mesenchymal progenitor cell recruitment

PS Lienemann, Q Vallmajo‐Martin… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The treatment of bone defects with recombinant bone morphogenetic protein‐2 (BMP‐2)
requires high doses precluding broad clinical application. Here, a bioengineering approach …