Self-healing hydrogels can heal themselves on the damaged sites, which opens up a
fascinating way for enhancing lifetimes of materials. Polypeptide/poly (amino acid) is a class …

Helices are the most prevalent secondary structure in biomolecules and play vital roles in
their activity. Chemists have been fascinated with mimicking this molecular conformation …

Hydrogel has good hydrophilicity, biocompatibility, stimuli responsiveness, and functionality,
which make it show great potential in the marine antifouling application, the fields of tissue …

A core challenge in biomaterials, with both fundamental significance and technological
relevance, concerns the rational design of bioactive microenvironments. Designed properly …

Neural progenitor cells (NPC) represent potential cell transplantation therapies for CNS
injuries. To understand how lesion environments influence transplanted NPC fate in vivo, we …

Minimizing the interaction of nanomedicines with the mononuclear phagocytic system (MPS)
is a critical challenge for their clinical translation. Conjugating polyethylene glycol (PEG) to …

Stem cells have been used for regenerative and therapeutic purposes in a variety of
diseases. In ischemic brain injury, preclinical studies have been promising, but have failed …

In this review, a general introduction to biological oxidants (focusing on reactive oxygen
species, ROS) and the biomedical rationale behind the development of materials capable of …

Polypeptides obtained from the ring-opening polymerization of N-carboxyanhydrides, as the
synthetic analogues of natural proteins, have drawn broad interests during the recent three …

The conjugation of hydrophilic polymers to proteins is an effective approach to prolonging
their circulation time in the bloodstream and, hence, improving their delivery to the target …