Thermoresponsive polymers hold great potential in the biomedical field, since they enable
the fabrication of cell sheets, in situ drug delivery and 3D-printing under physiological …

Synthetic polymers are attracting great attention in the last decades for their use in the
biomedical field as nanovectors for controlled drug delivery, hydrogels and scaffolds …

Thermoresponsive surfaces, prepared by grafting of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PIPAAm)
or its copolymers, have been investigated for biomedical applications. Thermoresponsive …

Cell-based scaffold-free therapies seek to develop in vitro organotypic three-dimensional
(3D) tissue-like surrogates, capitalising upon the inherent capacity of cells to create tissues …

Significant advances in biomaterials, stem cell biology, and microscale technologies have
enabled the fabrication of biologically relevant tissues and organs. Such tissues and organs …

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are reprogrammed cells that have features similar to
embryonic stem cells, such as the capacity of self-renewal and differentiation into many …

Scaffolds represent important components for tissue engineering. However, researchers
often encounter an enormous variety of choices when selecting scaffolds for tissue …

The engineering of 3-dimensional (3D) heart muscles has undergone exciting progress for
the past decade. Profound advances in human stem cell biology and technology, tissue …

Background—Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPS-CMs) are
a promising source of cells for regenerating myocardium. However, several issues …

Twenty years after the initial description of a tissue engineered construct, 3-dimensional
human cardiac tissues of different kinds are now generated routinely in many laboratories …