“To do alignment studies, most people have to come up with some completely artificial substrate that's not really transferable to a tissue engineering experiment,” he said. “This is much more natural.

tissue-biomaterial interaction, and biomimetic materials. The Instructive Biomaterials for Regenerative Engineering Lab leverages materials science, micro-nano fabrication, and organic chemistry to ...

What are hydrogels, and what are they used for? These water-absorbing polymer networks have applications in drug delivery, ...

Stanford researchers recently announced promising animal studies for a hydrogel they developed to prevent post-surgery ...

A recent study published in the journal Engineering delves into the application of tissue engineering in spinal cord injury ...

Design simple, natural, injectable, drug-releasing hydrogel blends for tissue regeneration and repair ... These relationships afford students the direct opportunity to explore health care applications ...

We are interested in exploiting the hydrogel environment to study mechanotransduction pathways as well as developing novel scaffolds combined with mechanical conditioning for tissue engineering. In ...

MIT engineers 3D print multidirectional muscle tissue that flexes like the human iris - opening new paths for biohybrid ...

Chinese-led team uses hydrogel-based bioinks for 3D-printed implant able to replicate functional components of natural ...

In research published last month, UChicago scientists created a hydrogel out of husks from the malva nut. In traditional Chinese medicine, the malva nut, or Pang Da Hai (胖大海) belongs to the "cool ...

A 3D-printed penis implant has restored erectile function to rabbits and pigs in a world first. Pigs with damage to their ...