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    Recent advancements in cartilage tissue engineering innovation and translation

    Articular cartilage was expected to be one of the first successfully engineered tissues, but today, cartilage repair products are few and they exhibit considerable limitations. For example, of the cell-based p...

    Rachel C. Nordberg, Benjamin J. Bielajew, Takumi Takahashi in Nature Reviews Rheumatology (2024)

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    Proteomic, mechanical, and biochemical development of tissue-engineered neocartilage

    The self-assembling process of cartilage tissue engineering is a promising technique to heal cartilage defects, preventing osteoarthritic changes. Given that chondrocytes dedifferentiate when expanded, it is n...

    Benjamin J. Bielajew, Ryan P. Donahue, Elliott K. Lamkin in Biomaterials Research (2022)

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    Collagen: quantification, biomechanics and role of minor subtypes in cartilage

    Collagen is a ubiquitous biomaterial in vertebrate animals. Although each of its 28 subtypes contributes to the functions of many different tissues in the body, most studies on collagen or collagenous tissues ...

    Benjamin J. Bielajew, Jerry C. Hu, Kyriacos A. Athanasiou in Nature Reviews Materials (2020)