In spite of the considerable achievements in the field of regenerative medicine in the past
several decades, osteochondral defect regeneration remains a challenging issue among …

This bioprinting roadmap features salient advances in selected applications of the technique
and highlights the status of current developments and challenges, as well as envisioned …

The success of tissue engineering will rely on the ability to generate complex, cell seeded
three-dimensional (3D) structures. Therefore, methods that can be used to precisely …

Magnetic levitational bioassembly of three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs represents a
rapidly emerging scaffold-and label-free approach and alternative conceptual advance in …

Ex vivo engineering of living tissues is a rapidly developing area with the potential to impact
significantly on a wide-range of biomedical applications. Major obstacles to the generation …

Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field. It has shown great
promise in generating living alternatives for harvested tissues and organs for transplantation …

Tissue constructs for cartilage with native mechanical properties have not been described to
date. To address this need the bacterial cellulose (BC) secreted by Gluconacetobacter …

Biodegradable scaffolds have played an important role in a number of tissue engineering
attempts over the past decade. The goal of this review article is to provide a brief overview of …

Most organs and biological tissues are soft viscoelastic materials with elastic moduli ranging
from on the order of 100 Pa for the brain to 100 000 Pa for soft cartilage. Biocompatible …

Due to its avascular nature, articular cartilage exhibits a very limited capacity to regenerate
and to repair. Although much of the tissue-engineered cartilage in existence has been …