The biological applications of DNA nanomaterials: current challenges and future directions

W Ma, Y Zhan, Y Zhang, C Mao, X Xie… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
DNA, a genetic material, has been employed in different scientific directions for various
biological applications as driven by DNA nanotechnology in the past decades, including …

BMP-2 gene delivery-based bone regeneration in dentistry

SY Park, KH Kim, S Kim, YM Lee, YJ Seol - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) is a potent growth factor affecting bone formation.
While recombinant human BMP-2 (rhBMP-2) has been commercially available in cases of …

Articular cartilage regeneration by activated skeletal stem cells

MP Murphy, LS Koepke, MT Lopez, X Tong… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease resulting in irreversible, progressive
destruction of articular cartilage. The etiology of OA is complex and involves a variety of …

Fat graft enrichment strategies: a systematic review

KS Vyas, HC Vasconez, S Morrison… - Plastic and …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background: Autologous fat grafting is a dynamic modality used in plastic surgery as an
adjunct to improve functional and aesthetic form. However, current practices in fat grafting for …

Wnt-modified materials mediate asymmetric stem cell division to direct human osteogenic tissue formation for bone repair

Y Okuchi, J Reeves, SS Ng, DH Doro, S Junyent… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
The maintenance of human skeletal stem cells (hSSCs) and their progeny in bone defects is
a major challenge. Here, we report on a transplantable bandage containing a three …

It's all in the delivery: designing hydrogels for cell and non-viral gene therapies

RL Youngblood, NF Truong, T Segura, LD Shea - Molecular Therapy, 2018 - cell.com
Hydrogels provide a regenerative medicine platform with their ability to create an
environment that supports transplanted or endogenous infiltrating cells and enables these …

Trb3 controls mesenchymal stem cell lineage fate and enhances bone regeneration by scaffold-mediated local gene delivery

J Fan, CS Lee, S Kim, X Zhang, J Pi-Anfruns, M Guo… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Aberrant lineage commitment of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in marrow contributes to
abnormal bone formation due to reduced osteogenic and increased adipogenic potency …

Recent advances and future of gene therapy for bone regeneration

G Shapiro, R Lieber, D Gazit, G Pelled - Current osteoporosis reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The purpose of this review is to discuss the recent advances in
gene therapy as a treatment for bone regeneration. While most fractures heal …

Scaffold-mediated gene delivery for osteochondral repair

H Madry, JK Venkatesan, N Carballo-Pedrares… - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Osteochondral defects involve both the articular cartilage and the underlying subchondral
bone. If left untreated, they may lead to osteoarthritis. Advanced biomaterial-guided delivery …

Physical and mechanical cues affecting biomaterial-mediated plasmid DNA delivery: insights into non-viral delivery systems

V Graceffa - Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Whilst traditional strategies to increase transfection efficiency of non-viral
systems aimed at modifying the vector or the polyplexes/lipoplexes, biomaterial-mediated …