Hydrogel scaffolds that can repair or regrow damaged biological tissue have great potential
for the treatment of injury and disease. These biomaterials are widely used in the tissue …

Injectable thermosensitive hydrogels are free-flowing polymer solutions at low or room
temperature, making them easy to encapsulate the therapeutic payload or cells via simply …

Articular cartilage defects, caused by trauma, osteoarthritis, or other diseases, always lead to
severe joint pain and joint dysfunction. Without access to progenitor cells and the supply of …

The identification and production of recombinant morphogens and growth factors that play
key roles in tissue regeneration have generated much enthusiasm and numerous clinical …

Scaffolds are implants or injects, which are used to deliver cells, drugs, and genes into the
body. Different forms of polymeric scaffolds for cell/drug delivery are available:(1) a typical …

Stimuli responsive polymers can provide a variety of applications for the biomedical fields.
The interest in these polymers has exponentially increased due to their promising potential …

A concentrated fish soup could be gelled in the winter and re-solled upon heating. In
contrast, some synthetic copolymers exhibit an inverse sol–gel transition with spontaneous …

Aliphatic polyesters prepared by ring-opening polymerization of lactones are now used
worldwide as bioresorbabale devices in surgery (orthopaedic devices, sutures, stents, tissue …

In the past few years, an increasing number of in situ-forming systems have been reported in
the literature for various biomedical applications, including drug delivery, cell encapsulation …

Amphiphilic block copolymers (ABCs) have been used extensively in pharmaceutical
applications ranging from sustained-release technologies to gene delivery. The utility of …