The survival of vertebrate organisms depends on highly regulated delivery of oxygen and
nutrients through vascular networks that pervade nearly all tissues in the body …

Skin wound repair is a multistage process involving multiple cellular and molecular
interactions, which modulate the cell behaviors and dynamic remodeling of extracellular …

Advances in biomaterials for drug delivery are enabling significant progress in biology and
medicine. Multidisciplinary collaborations between physical scientists, engineers, biologists …

Enabling angiogenesis is critical for the success of tissue repair therapies and the fate of
tissue-engineered constructs. Although many biochemical signaling molecules have been …

Stem cell fate is closely intertwined with microenvironmental and endogenous cues within
the body. Recapitulating this dynamic environment ex vivo can be achieved through …

Owing to their self‐renewal and differentiation ability, stem cells are conducive for repairing
injured tissues, making them a promising source of seed cells for tissue engineering. The …

Chronic diabetic wounds are caused by an array of pathologies. Pathogenic bacteria such
as S. aureus can easily invade hosts with deficient immunity. In this study, we developed a …

Active biomaterials offer novel approaches to study mechanotransduction in mammalian
cells. These material systems probe cellular responses by dynamically modulating their …

The fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family is composed of 18 secreted signaling proteins
consisting of canonical FGFs and endocrine FGFs that activate four receptor tyrosine …

A number of challenges in skin grafting for wound healing have drawn researchers to focus
on skin tissue engineering as an alternative solution. The core idea of tissue engineering is …