Successful regeneration of weight‐bearing bone defects and critical‐sized cartilage defects
remains a major challenge in clinical orthopedics. In the past decades, biodegradable …

Chitosan is a deacetylated polysaccharide from chitin, the natural biopolymer primarily
found in shells of marine crustaceans and fungi cell walls. Upon deacetylation, the …

In the current era of globalization, the exponential surge in the production, consumption, and
disposal of agricultural and post-consumer polymeric waste material has emerged as a …

Nearly 30 years ago, we reported on a concept now known as Tissue Engineering. Here, we
report on some of the advances in this now thriving area of research. In particular, significant …

Three-dimensional (3D) printing technology allows fabricating complex and precise
structures by stacking materials layer by layer. The fabrication method has a strong potential …

Hydrogels, due to their unique biocompatibility, flexible methods of synthesis, range of
constituents, and desirable physical characteristics, have been the material of choice for …

The past three decades have seen the emergence of an endeavor called tissue engineering
and regenerative medicine in which scientists, engineers, and physicians apply tools from a …

The past decade has seen the rapid development of new strategies for the design of
biodegradable macromolecular compounds, with properly suited architecture and tailored …

Conventional forms of drug administration generally rely on pills, eye drops, ointments, and
intravenous solutions. Recently, a number of novel drug delivery approaches have been …

Organ printing can be defined as layer-by-layer additive robotic biofabrication of three-
dimensional functional living macrotissues and organ constructs using tissue spheroids as …