Although mechanisms of cell–material interaction and cellular mechanotransduction are increasingly understood, the mechanical insensitivity of mesenchymal cells to certain soft amorphous biomaterial ...

Hydrogels are a promising class of biomaterials that can be tailored to mimic human tissues to model them in vitro and for therapeutic applications in vivo. Tuning the properties of hydrogels is often ...

Biomaterials science encompasses designing and fabricating intelligent materials for studying, directing, or mimicking biology. When it comes to successfully integrating biomaterials into biological ...

A fully new way of coupling biomaterials to living cells, developed by the University of Twente, enables us to teach the body new things. Or, in turn, we can learn about the interaction of the cell ...

Many hopes rested on so-called tissue engineering: With the help of stem cells, skin and other organs could be grown, thereby enabling better wound healing and better transplants. Although some of ...

Biomaterials have been used in medicine for more than seven decades, in applications such as implantable devices, drug release systems or three-dimensional supports for cells in regenerative medicine.

An updated method for directly observing physical interactions between cells, could allow scientists to one day map every possible cell interaction. One of the fundamental goals of basic biology is ...

Alexander Caldwell, who recently earned his PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, is the co-first author with graduate student Varsha Rao on a new paper in Biomaterials. The work explores ...

While many of the stages of the cell-mediated immune response are known, the mechanisms by which various white blood cells can specifically bind (and release) to initiation proteins are not as well ...

Cellular biomechanics of neural and vascular injury, mechanotransduction in the cardiovascular system, mechanical control of growth and development for wound healing and tissue engineering Engineering ...