The foreign body response (FBR) remains a clinical challenge in the field of biomaterials
due to its ability to elicit a chronic and sustained immune response. Modulating the immune …

The use of medical implants continues to grow as the population ages. Biofilm-related
implant infection is the leading cause of medical implant failure and remains difficult to …

Diagnosing and monitoring inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease, involves
the use of endoscopic imaging, biopsies and serology. These infrequent tests cannot …

Cell therapy has significant therapeutic potential but is often limited by poor donor cell
retention and viability at the host implantation site. Biomaterials can improve cell retention by …

Contemporary medicine is unimaginabile without biotechnological involvment in diagnostic
and therapeutic purpouses, but sometimes the discovery and application of new materials …