Special issue in Advanced Healthcare Materials, edited by Jürgen Groll and Jos Malda, covers bioinks, melt electrowriting, printing bone tissue, islet cells, tendons, skin, trachea, kidneys and more.
Bio-Interfaces for Immuno-Engineering
Special issue in Advanced Healthcare Materials, edited by Weiqiang Chen and Deok‐Ho Kim, including biomaterial-immune cell interactions, immunotherapy, immune organs-on-chip and mechanobiology.
Blooming Flowers and Flying Birds in 4D Bioprinting
The art of 4D bioprinting is creating multiresponsive smart architectures for nerve regeneration.
Body On Chip: Are We There Yet?
Advanced Healthcare Materials Special issue on “Microphysiological Analytic Platforms (MAPs): Precision Organs on Chip” edited by Luke P. Lee.
Synthetic Alienation of Microbes
Review by Kubyshkin and Budisa in Biotechnology Journal explores the why and the how.
Cell-Material Interactions at High Throughput
TopoWellPlate, a 96-well plate based material topography library, enables mechanistic studies on cell-material interactions using standard molecular methods.
Heart Stem Cell Therapy in Patches
Vascularized cardiac patch provides a cell home for a patient’s own stem cells for drug screening and a personalized tissue graft.
Brain Traffic Jam Resolved
Treatment options for Alzheimer’s disease are revealed in a bio-mimetic lab-on-a-chip system, modelling intracellular kinesin-microtubule transport.
Plasmodium Pole Dancing
Malaria parasites moving in pillar arrays reveal structural tropism to invade small blood vessels in the skin.
The Immune System Matters
Silver nanoparticles are a more effective cancer treatment in immune competent mice.