Soft biocompatible PEG hydrogels with tunable mechanical properties and RGDS-content have been prepared by Löwik et al. using a copper free-click reaction.
Poly(phosphate) for Bone Formation
Poly(phosphate): An excellent review about the polymer’s physiological function, its biochemistry and its role during bone mineralization.
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A wrap up of drug carrier designs and their applications
Anna Musyanovych and Katharina Landfester review the production and use of polymer-based drug carriers with particular focus on their use in biomedicine.
Peptide-based materials for nanomedicine
The first issue in Macromolecular Bioscience is a special issue on “Peptide-based Materials for Nanomedicine” guest-edited by Neil Cameron and Tim Deming.
A new trick from liquid crystalline elastomers – responsive cell culture scaffolds
Biocompatible, biodegradable and porous LC elastomers were used as viable, soft scaffolds for cell growth and proliferation in a spatial (3D) fashion.
Microvascular electrospun scaffolds
A combination of 3D printing and electrospinning can be used for micropatterning fibrous scaffolds that are suturable, porous, and biodegradable.
Overcoming clinical complications of vascular prostheses
Electrospinning and plasma polymerization are combined to provide vascular graft scaffolds that are mechanically compliant and biocompatible.
Nucleic Acid Delivery: Past, Present, and Future Trends
Polycations that are degradable by reduction of disulfide bonds can be used as nucleic acid delivery vehicles.
Advanced functional polymers for medicine
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