Engineering of biofilms with a glycosylation circuit for biomaterial applications

Biomaterial technology for tissue engineering applications.

Tissue engineering is a newly emerging biomedical technology and methodology to assist and accelerate the regeneration and repairing of defective and damaged tissues based on the natural healing potentials of patients themselves. For the new therapeutic strategy, it is indispensable to provide cells with a local environment that enhances and regulates their proliferation and differentiation for...

Gellan gum: a new biomaterial for cartilage tissue engineering applications.

Gellan gum is a polysaccharide manufactured by microbial fermentation of the Sphingomonas paucimobilis microorganism, being commonly used in the food and pharmaceutical industry. It can be dissolved in water, and when heated and mixed with mono or divalent cations, forms a gel upon lowering the temperature under mild conditions. In this work, gellan gum hydrogels were analyzed as cells supports...

A Review on Biomaterial Design for Vascular Tissue Engineering Applications

Biomaterials play a critical role in the success of tissue engineering approaches as they guide theshape and structure of developing tissues, provide mechanical stability, and present opportunities to deliver inductive molecules to transplanted or migrating cells. Therefore, the selection of theappropriate biomaterial can have a profound impact on the quality of newly formed tissue. A major cha...

Nanoscale Engineering for Biomaterial Surfaces

Elastin as a biomaterial for tissue engineering.

Biomaterials based upon elastin and elastin-derived molecules are increasingly investigated for their application in tissue engineering. This interest is fuelled by the remarkable properties of this structural protein, such as elasticity, self-assembly, long-term stability, and biological activity. Elastin can be applied in biomaterials in various forms, including insoluble elastin fibres, hydr...