Gelatin‐polysaccharide composite scaffolds for 3D cell culture and tissue engineering: towards natural therapeutics

S Afewerki, A Sheikhi, S Kannan… - Bioengineering & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Gelatin is a promising material as scaffold with therapeutic and regenerative characteristics
due to its chemical similarities to the extracellular matrix (ECM) in the native tissues …

An alternative medical diagnosis method: biosensors for virus detection

Y Saylan, Ö Erdem, S Ünal, A Denizli - Biosensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Infectious diseases still pose an omnipresent threat to global and public health, especially in
many countries and rural areas of cities. Underlying reasons of such serious maladies can …

Advances in biomaterials and technologies for vascular embolization

J Hu, H Albadawi, BW Chong, AR Deipolyi… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Minimally invasive transcatheter embolization is a common nonsurgical procedure in
interventional radiology used for the deliberate occlusion of blood vessels for the treatment …

Advancing modern healthcare with nanotechnology, nanobiosensors, and internet of nano things: Taxonomies, applications, architecture, and challenges

PKD Pramanik, A Solanki, A Debnath, A Nayyar… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Healthcare sector is probably the most benefited from the applications of nanotechnology.
The nanotechnology, in the forms of nanomedicine, nanoimplants, nanobiosensors along …

Current trends in cancer nanotheranostics: metallic, polymeric, and lipid-based systems

CO Silva, JO Pinho, JM Lopes, AJ Almeida, MM Gaspar… - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Theranostics has emerged in recent years to provide an efficient and safer alternative in
cancer management. This review presents an updated description of nanotheranostic …

The tumor-on-chip: Recent advances in the development of microfluidic systems to recapitulate the physiology of solid tumors

G Trujillo-de Santiago, BG Flores-Garza… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
The ideal in vitro recreation of the micro-tumor niche—although much needed for a better
understanding of cancer etiology and development of better anticancer therapies—is highly …

Smart biomaterials: recent advances and future directions

PS Kowalski, C Bhattacharya, S Afewerki… - … biomaterials science & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Smart biomaterials have the ability to respond to changes in physiological parameters and
exogenous stimuli and continue to impact many aspects of modern medicine. Smart …

Nerve guidance conduit development for primary treatment of peripheral nerve transection injuries: A commercial perspective

BJ Parker, DI Rhodes, CM O'Brien, AE Rodda… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Commercial nerve guidance conduits (NGCs) for repair of peripheral nerve discontinuities
are of little use in gaps larger than 30 mm, and for smaller gaps they often fail to compete …

Biomolecules-derived biomaterials

LP Datta, S Manchineella, T Govindaraju - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Human civilization has witnessed the use of materials-derived from biomolecules of plants
and animal origin for biomedical applications since ancient era. In recent years, precision …

Novel SWCNTs-mesoporous silicon nanocomposite as efficient non-enzymatic glucose biosensor

J Ahmed, MA Rashed, M Faisal, FA Harraz… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
The development and designing of self-testing blood-glucose electrochemical biosensor is
an effective approach for diabetic patients to overcome and control this high health …