Porcine collagen is a commercially available graft, which has been previously used as a tissue-engineering scaffold. It has also been applied in a pediatric patient to close the anterior abdominal ...

“Success in tissue engineering would mean that someone suffering an injury to an organ or tissue could go to a hospital and ...

In tissue engineering, the technology permits highly complex and even patient-matched scaffold designs, as has been proven in vascular applications. This will provide new treatment pathways based on ...

Quality control of the materials used in various surgical applications is a key challenge for the tissue engineering industry. For example, living human cells are being used in scaffolds to repair ...

This dramatic reduction in equipment costs could democratize tissue engineering research, making it accessible to more laboratories worldwide. By showing that effective scaffolds can be created using ...

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 ...

The process also involves bioreactors, growth factors, transcription factors, scaffolds, and mechanical stimuli to ensure proper tissue development and functionality. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC ...

Researchers have developed a new bio-inspired approach to building complex 3D microfluidic networks by utilizing plant roots and fungal hyphae as molds. The team grew plants and fungi in nanoparticles ...

He then grew cells in this hydrogel scaffold in order to produce aligned tissue constructs. “If I had thrown the workpieces away back ... He also appreciates the European scientific culture and ETH in ...

Tissue engineering is a field that aims to regenerate or repair diseased or injured tissues and organs in the body. This course will use student-directed learning as the teaching tool to introduce ...

Neural tissue engineering, spinal cord repair, cardiovascular diseases, drug delivery, biomaterial scaffolds, stem cells, neural electrode/tissue interface, and surface modification.