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, ...

A recent study published in the journal Engineering delves into the application of tissue engineering in spinal cord injury (SCI) repair, presenting a comprehensive review of the latest research and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

"We developed a hydrogel that can be adjusted based on the patient's age and the stiffness requirements of the injured tissue, which is important because the meniscus has different biochemical and ...

In a recent study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, a team of scientists from China, Japan and the U.S. presented a 3D printed hydrogel ... spongiosum (the tissue surrounding the urethra ...