Recent advances in the fabrication and application of nanocomposite hydrogels for load-bearing and electroactive tissue replacement.
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Does Nicotine Affect “Recycling” of Cellular Components?
Using a proteomics approach, Drs. Paulo and Gygi from the Harvard Medical School provide evidence that nicotine exposure changes the abundance of membrane proteins implicated in signal transduction and autophagy.
Bioinspired Robotics
Mechanical engineer Sangbae Kim builds animal-like machines for use in disaster response.
Magnetic Stem Cells for Gene Engineering
Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University have obtained magnetic stem cells with low toxicity and enough stable for gene engineering applications.
Wire Supercapacitors – Key Candidate to Future Wearable Electronic Devices
Prof. Guozhen Shen’s group has designed and fabricated metres-long flexible wire-shaped supercapacitors, which can be easily woven into wearable and patterned textiles.
Blood–Brain Migration and Tracking with Photonic Theranostics
Drug carriers capable of easily crossing the BBB are being explored by a team working across locations in South Korea and the USA.
Human-like Androids are the Future of Tomorrow
The initial foundation to achieve biomimetic human robots may be here, via a platform for the rapid fabrication of biologically relevant artificial tissues and organs which was recently proposed.
Smart hydrogels rapidly stop blood loss
Researchers report the first example of a hydrogel for wound healing with both rapid self-healing ability and high mechanical strength.
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.
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