Single cell resolution building blocks for tissue engineering.
Regenerative Medicine
Scientist Alan Mackay-Sim: Australian of the Year 2017
Each year the Australian of the Year award recognizes and celebrates the achievements and contributions of eminent Australians. This year a lead stem cell scientist was recognized.
Zwitterionic Surface Coatings for Implantable Biomaterials
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Antibiotic Spider Silk in Just One Click
Researchers from the University of Nottingham report a novel method for making antibiotic spider silk.
Bone Glue that Stays Sticky when Wet
Groll, Gbureck and co-workers design a new material strategy that shows significantly improved wet adhesion of bone adhesives.
Advanced Functional Polymers for Medicine
A special issue in Macromolecular Bioscience covers several promising approaches to tailor and control the properties and functions of polymers for medical applications.
Nanovesicles Prompt Self-Renewal of Bone Marrow Stem Cells
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Nylon muscles bend it like…the guys from MIT
Researchers from MIT present an approach to make artificial muscles with nylon that bend, controllably, in any direction.
Tissue Tetris – A New Microscale Tissue Assembly Method
A Tetris-inspired approach to fabricate microscale tissue from hydrogel building blocks affords a non-contact assembly method to build complex and reconfigurable 3D architectures.
On Materials for Cardiac Tissue Engineering
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