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
“Man-made” extracellular vesicle-mimetic nanovesicles developed with characteristics similar to those of extracellular vesicles.
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
In the heart wall the pressure required to pump blood dominates the biomechanics of the contraction cycle of the heart.
Anisotropic Scaffold for the Regeneration of Osteochondral Defects
A methacrylated hyaluronic acid scaffold with oriented pores perpendicular to the axial direction by an unidirectional freeze-drying method is reported.
Topographical control of preosteoblast culture by shape memory foams
This study expands the potential applications of the SMP foam in tissue engineering.
Tissue-engineered fibrin-based heart valve
The BioTexValve demonstrates the potential of bio-inspired textile-reinforcement for the fabrication of functional tissue-engineered heart valves for the aortic position.