In the past two decades, many polymers have been proposed for producing
immunoprotective capsules. Examples include the natural polymers alginate, agarose …

The development of cell microencapsulation systems began several decades ago. However,
today few systems have been tested in clinical trials. For this reason, in the last years …

Transplantation of pancreatic islets in immune protective capsules holds the promise as a
functional cure for type 1 diabetes, also about 40 years after the first proof of principal study …

Cell encapsulation has already shown its high potential and holds the promise for future cell
therapies to enter the clinics as a large scale treatment option for various types of diseases …

Wood cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) have been suggested as a potential wound healing
material, but its utilization is limited by FDA requirements regarding endotoxin levels. In this …

Hydrogels provide a regenerative medicine platform with their ability to create an
environment that supports transplanted or endogenous infiltrating cells and enables these …

Mineralized biomaterials are promising for use in bone tissue engineering. Culturing
osteogenic cells in such materials will potentially generate biological bone grafts that may …

Various synthetic biomaterials are used to replace lost or damaged bone tissue that, more or
less successfully, osseointegrate into the bone environment. Almost all biomaterials used in …

Abstract Poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-coated carbon microfibers (PEDOT-MFs) hold
promise for developing advanced neuroprostheses and neural repair devices. We …

Two novel types of hydrogel microspheres (MS) are presented. First, one-component
microspheres (1-comMS) were produced from sodium alginate (Na-alg) equipped with thiol …