Life is 3D: boosting spheroid function for tissue engineering

MW Laschke, MD Menger - Trends in biotechnology, 2017 - cell.com
Spheroids provide a 3D environment with intensive cell–cell contacts. As a result of their
excellent regenerative properties and rapid progress in their high-throughput production …

Induced pluripotent stem cells for cardiovascular disease modeling and precision medicine: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

K Musunuru, F Sheikh, RM Gupta… - Circulation: Genomic …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) offer an unprece-dented opportunity to study human
physiology and disease at the cellular level. They also have the potential to be leveraged in …

Developmentally engineered callus organoid bioassemblies exhibit predictive in vivo long bone healing

G Nilsson Hall, LF Mendes, C Gklava, L Geris… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Clinical translation of cell‐based products is hampered by their limited predictive in vivo
performance. To overcome this hurdle, engineering strategies advocate to fabricate tissue …

[HTML][HTML] Progress and challenges in large-scale expansion of human pluripotent stem cells

C Kropp, D Massai, R Zweigerdt - Process Biochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
The constant supply of high cell numbers generated by defined, robust, and economically
viable culture processes is indispensable for the envisioned application of human …

Human pluripotent stem cell culture: current status, challenges, and advancement

S Dakhore, B Nayer, K Hasegawa - Stem cells international, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past two decades, human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) have gained attention due
to their pluripotent and proliferative ability which enables production of almost all cell types …

Continuous WNT control enables advanced hPSC cardiac processing and prognostic surface marker identification in chemically defined suspension culture

C Halloin, K Schwanke, W Löbel, A Franke, M Szepes… - Stem Cell Reports, 2019 - cell.com
Aiming at clinical translation, robust directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells
(hPSCs), preferentially in chemically defined conditions, is a key requirement. Here …

Transcriptomic analysis of 3D cardiac differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells reveals faster cardiomyocyte maturation compared to 2D culture

MA Branco, JP Cotovio, CAV Rodrigues, SH Vaz… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) represent an almost limitless source of cells
for disease modelling and drug screening applications. Here we established an efficient and …

Big bottlenecks in cardiovascular tissue engineering

NF Huang, V Serpooshan, VB Morris, N Sayed… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Although tissue engineering using human-induced pluripotent stem cells is a promising
approach for treatment of cardiovascular diseases, some limiting factors include the survival …

Concurrent application of conductive biopolymeric chitosan/polyvinyl alcohol/MWCNTs nanofibers, intracellular signaling manipulating molecules and electrical …

A Abedi, B Bakhshandeh, A Babaie… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fabrication of appropriate electro-conductive scaffold, application of small molecules (SMs),
electrical stimulation (ES), and stem cells are steps forward in cardiac tissue engineering …

In situ forming, cytocompatible, and self-recoverable tough hydrogels based on dual ionic and click cross-linked alginate

MH Ghanian, H Mirzadeh, H Baharvand - Biomacromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
A dual cross-linking strategy was developed to answer the urgent need for fatigue-resistant,
cytocompatible, and in situ forming tough hydrogels. Clickable, yet calcium-binding …