Customizing treatments to meet individual patients’ needs is the future of healthcare.
What Do Decorated (Nano)Worms Have to Do with Stem Cells?
Researchers seek a more effective way to culture human embryonic stem cells.
Starfish-Inspired Soft Robot for Advanced Therapeutics [Video]
A bioinspired soft actuator that responds to an alternating magnetic field is fabricated.
Rebuilding Skin using Hydrogels
Researchers are looking at hydrogel scaffolding with drug-delivery properties to improve skin tissue engineering.
Interview: Prof. Pamela Habibović
“Direct societal impact of my work is something I am proud of” – Pamela Habibović on biomaterials.
Scalable Method to Generate Human iPSC-Derived Macrophages
Protocol for iPSC-derived macrophages with excellent functional and transcriptomic fidelity.
Supramolecular Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Macromolecular Bioscience highlights progress in supramolecular hydrogel biomaterials.
Organotypic Culture System for in vitro Bone Modeling
An organotypic culture system that allows the production of bone tissue features on a centimeter scale.
Reconstructing the Spinal Cord with a Hydrogel Scaffold
An electrospun hydrogel scaffold shows promising results for regeneration of the spinal cord following injury.
Mimicking Healthy and Diseased Cell Environments
Research suggests that epigenetic remodeling can be persistent and might be a memory keeper.