Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Compared to traditional therapeutic strategies, three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is one of …

Chirality is absolutely central in chemistry and biology. The recent findings of chiral self-
assembling peptides' remarkable chemical complementarity and structural compatibility …

Despite great progress in engineering functional tissues for organ repair, including the heart,
an invasive surgical approach is still required for their implantation. Here, we designed an …

A core challenge in biomaterials, with both fundamental significance and technological
relevance, concerns the rational design of bioactive microenvironments. Designed properly …

Coronary artery disease with associated myocardial infarction continues to be a major cause
of death and morbidity around the world, despite significant advances in therapy. Patients …

Myocardial infarction causes almost 7.3 million deaths each year worldwide. However,
current treatments are more palliative than curative. Presently, cell and protein therapies are …

Transplantation of stem cells into the heart can improve cardiac function after myocardial
infarction and in chronic heart failure, but the extent of benefit and of reproducibility of this …

Myocardial infarction caused by coronary artery obstruction results in the loss of heart
muscle, which is subsequently replaced by scar tissue with limited therapeutic options …

Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death in industrialized nations with
myocardial infarction (MI) contributing to at least one fifth of the reported deaths. The hypoxic …

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death throughout the world. The demand for
new therapeutic interventions is increasing. Although pharmacological and surgical …