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Materials from Natural Resources for the Application of Bone Tissue Engineering
Natural materials have distinctive qualities like the ability to communicate with the biological environment, especially during the regeneration process. In this perspective, natural materials exhibit signific...
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Lung-on-a-Chip Models of the Lung Parenchyma
Since the publication of the first lung-on-a-chip in 2010, research has made tremendous progress in mimicking the cellular environment of healthy and diseased alveoli. As the first lung-on-a-chip products have...
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Acute and Chronic Wound Management: Assessment, Therapy and Monitoring Strategies
The dynamic nature of the wound healing is a well-studied process. With the rapid evolution of healthcare science, efforts are being made to design newer therapies, along with advancement in the available tech...
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Recent Trends in the Application of Materials for Cancer Therapy and Diagnosis
The application of nanomaterials has been expanded in various medical fields. One of these important fields in the use of nanoparticles is cancer therapy and its diagnosis. Nanoparticles have unique properties...
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Green Synthesis of Metallic Nanoparticles and Various Biomedical Applications
Nanobiotechnology has emerged as an advanced arena in conjunction with biology and nanotechnology. Biological entities involve living organisms of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic origins. Recently attention ha...
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Understanding and Engineering the Pulmonary Vasculature
Blood vessels play essential roles in regulating embryonic organogenesis and adult tissue homeostasis. The inner lining of blood vessels is covered by vascular endothelial cells, which exhibit tissue-specific ...
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Hydrogel-Based Tissue-Mimics for Vascular Regeneration and Tumor Angiogenesis
The vital role of structurally and functionally stable vasculature in engineered tissues is well-established in regenerative medicine. Large-volume, natural, and synthetic tissue constructs require a high degr...
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Materials for Gene Delivery Systems
Gene therapy has garnered a lot of interest in the recent past for the treatment of various life-threatening genetic diseases. Gene therapy involves using genes that should be delivered to the infected cells t...
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Nanotechnology: Changing the World of Animal Health and Veterinary Medicine
Nanoparticles have long been used as diagnostic and therapeutic agents in human medicine, but their use in veterinary medicine and animal production is recent. Several laws and regulations have been implemente...
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Clinical Translation of Engineered Pulmonary Vascular Models
Diseases in pulmonary vasculature remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Numerous pre-clinical animal models were developed to understand lung vasculature during diseases and development. H...
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Nanomaterial Applications in Cancer Therapy and Diagnosis
Cancer is one of the leading health challenges and a significant cause of death globally which is characterized by uncontrolled, random cell division and invasiveness. Conventional cancer therapeutics have bee...
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Promoting the Bio-potency of Bioactive Compounds Through Nanoencapsulation
Nanotechnology is actively used in food science and technology, and one of the evolving research areas involves the nanoencapsulation of volatile bioactive compounds. Quite often, these bioactive compounds are...
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3D and 4D Bioprinting Technology for Tissue Engineering Applications
Regenerative medicine aims to restore, regenerate, or replace tissues or organs affected by disease, trauma, or congenital disabilities. Tissue engineering is one approach used to accomplish these objectives. ...
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Current and Future Engineering Strategies for ECMO Therapy
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a last resort therapy for patients with respiratory failure where the gas exchange capacity of the lung is compromised. Venous blood is pumped through an oxygenati...
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Mimicking Islet Development with Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
The development of functional beta cells from human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) offers a promising approach for treating type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, current differentiation protocols often yield heteroge...
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Bioactive Materials for Use in Stem Cell Therapies for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetes is a major challenge to healthcare providers globally, with significant human and financial costs. Type 1 diabetes is expected to effect more than a million people concurrently, with over 130,000 newl...
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Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery System for Beginners
Nanoparticles are the simplest form of structures with sizes in the nanometer range. They possess unique physicochemical properties such as high surface area, nanoscale size, and optical characteristics. The n...
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Innovative Nanomaterials with Profound Antibacterial Action Applied in Biomedical Sciences
Bacteria are omnipresent and can intensify their growth by colonization leading to the formation of biofilms. Biofilms are the primary cause of bacterial infection and mortality worldwide. For the prevention o...
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Simple Models of Lung Development
Models are essential to further our understanding of lung development and regeneration and to facilitate identification and testing of potential treatments for lung diseases. A wide variety of rodent and human...
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Correction to: Multipotent Embryonic Lung Progenitors: Foundational Units of In Vitro and In Vivo Lung Organogenesis
