Engineering the next generation of cell-based therapeutics

CJ Bashor, IB Hilton, H Bandukwala… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cell-based therapeutics are an emerging modality with the potential to treat many currently
intractable diseases through uniquely powerful modes of action. Despite notable recent …

[HTML][HTML] Solid implantable devices for sustained drug delivery

E Magill, S Demartis, E Gavini, AD Permana… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Implantable drug delivery systems (IDDS) are an attractive alternative to conventional drug
administration routes. Oral and injectable drug administration are the most common routes …

In-vivo programmable acoustic manipulation of genetically engineered bacteria

Y Yang, Y Yang, D Liu, Y Wang, M Lu, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Acoustic tweezers can control target movement through the momentum interaction between
an acoustic wave and an object. This technology has advantages over optical tweezers for …

Review of synthetic and hybrid scaffolds in cartilage tissue engineering

M Wasyłeczko, W Sikorska, A Chwojnowski - Membranes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cartilage tissue is under extensive investigation in tissue engineering and regenerative
medicine studies because of its limited regenerative potential. Currently, many scaffolds are …

[HTML][HTML] Biomaterials to enhance stem cell transplantation

BN Kharbikar, P Mohindra, TA Desai - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The successful transplantation of stem cells has the potential to transform regenerative
medicine approaches and open promising avenues to repair, replace, and regenerate …

3D printing for preoperative planning and surgical training: a review

A Ganguli, GJ Pagan-Diaz, L Grant, C Cvetkovic… - Biomedical …, 2018 - Springer
Surgeons typically rely on their past training and experiences as well as visual aids from
medical imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed …

Inflammation-induced subcutaneous neovascularization for the long-term survival of encapsulated islets without immunosuppression

LH Wang, BA Marfil-Garza, AU Ernst… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Cellular therapies for type-1 diabetes can leverage cell encapsulation to dispense with
immunosuppression. However, encapsulated islet cells do not survive long, particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Medical devices, smart drug delivery, wearables and technology for the treatment of Diabetes Mellitus

DA Domingo-Lopez, G Lattanzi, LHJ Schreiber… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Diabetes mellitus refers to a group of metabolic disorders which affect how the body uses
glucose impacting approximately 9% of the population worldwide. This review covers the …

Immune-privileged tissues formed from immunologically cloaked mouse embryonic stem cells survive long term in allogeneic hosts

J Harding, K Vintersten-Nagy, H Yang… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
The immunogenicity of transplanted allogeneic cells and tissues is a major hurdle to the
advancement of cell therapies. Here we show that the overexpression of eight …

Hydrogels in emerging technologies for type 1 diabetes

S Fuchs, AU Ernst, LH Wang, K Shariati… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Type 1 diabetes therapies that afford tighter glycemic control in a more manageable and
painless manner for patients has remained a central focus of next-generation diabetes …