Scientific, sustainability and regulatory challenges of cultured meat

MJ Post, S Levenberg, DL Kaplan, N Genovese, J Fu… - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular agriculture is an emerging branch of biotechnology that aims to address issues
associated with the environmental impact, animal welfare and sustainability challenges of …

Tissue engineering for clean meat production

T Ben-Arye, S Levenberg - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Increasing public awareness of foodborne illnesses, factory farming, and the ecological
footprint of the meat industry, has generated the need for animal-free meat alternatives. In …

A 3D cell printed muscle construct with tissue-derived bioink for the treatment of volumetric muscle loss

YJ Choi, YJ Jun, DY Kim, HG Yi, SH Chae, J Kang… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Volumetric muscle loss (VML) is an irrecoverable injury associated with muscle loss greater
than 20%. Although hydrogel-based 3D engineered muscles and the decellularized …

Macrophages of diverse phenotypes drive vascularization of engineered tissues

PL Graney, S Ben-Shaul, S Landau, A Bajpai… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Macrophages are key contributors to vascularization, but the mechanisms behind their
actions are not understood. Here, we show that diverse macrophage phenotypes have …

Spheroid culture as a tool for creating 3D complex tissues

E Fennema, N Rivron, J Rouwkema… - Trends in …, 2013 - cell.com
3D cell culture methods confer a high degree of clinical and biological relevance to in vitro
models. This is specifically the case with the spheroid culture, where a small aggregate of …

[HTML][HTML] Three-dimensional human iPSC-derived artificial skeletal muscles model muscular dystrophies and enable multilineage tissue engineering

SM Maffioletti, S Sarcar, ABH Henderson, I Mannhardt… - Cell Reports, 2018 - cell.com
Generating human skeletal muscle models is instrumental for investigating muscle
pathology and therapy. Here, we report the generation of three-dimensional (3D) artificial …

Materials roles for promoting angiogenesis in tissue regeneration

JH Lee, P Parthiban, GZ Jin, JC Knowles… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Enabling angiogenesis is critical for the success of tissue repair therapies and the fate of
tissue-engineered constructs. Although many biochemical signaling molecules have been …

Biomaterials based strategies for skeletal muscle tissue engineering: existing technologies and future trends

TH Qazi, DJ Mooney, M Pumberger, S Geissler… - Biomaterials, 2015 - Elsevier
Skeletal muscles have a robust capacity to regenerate, but under compromised conditions,
such as severe trauma, the loss of muscle functionality is inevitable. Research carried out in …

Vertical extrusion cryo (bio) printing for anisotropic tissue manufacturing

Z Luo, G Tang, H Ravanbakhsh, W Li… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the poor mechanical properties of many hydrogel bioinks, conventional 3D extrusion
bioprinting is usually conducted based on the X–Y plane, where the deposited layers are …

Vascularization in bone tissue engineering constructs

ÁE Mercado-Pagán, AM Stahl, Y Shanjani… - Annals of biomedical …, 2015 - Springer
Vascularization of large bone grafts is one of the main challenges of bone tissue
engineering (BTE), and has held back the clinical translation of engineered bone constructs …