Degradable polymers are used widely in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Maturing capabilities in additive manufacturing coupled with advances in orthogonal chemical …

With the nucleus as an exception, mitochondria are the only animal cell organelles
containing their own genetic information, called mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). During oocyte …

Shape‐changing polymers are an emerging class of smart stimuli‐responsive materials.
Among the different stimuli that could be used for polymer actuation, light has several especially …

Despite the tremendous potential of bioprinting techniques toward the fabrication of highly
complex biological structures and the flourishing progress in 3D bioprinting, the most critical …

We report for the first time on the design of an advanced hairy hybrid Janus-type catalyst,
which is comprised of an inorganic silica core covered with two distinct polymeric shells (…

Janus particles are a unique class of multifunctional patchy particles combining two dissimilar
chemical or physical functionalities at their opposite sides. The asymmetry characteristic …

Smart polymers that are capable of controlled shape transformations under external stimuli
have attracted significant attention in the recent years due to the resemblance of this …

Cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) are heavy metals, important environmental pollutants, and
potent toxicants to organism. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have been reported to remove Cd and …

Bioethical and legal issues of three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting as the emerging field of
biotechnology have not yet been widely discussed among bioethicists around the world, …

Key hurdles for replacing damaged cartilage with an equivalent synthetic construct are the
development of a hydrogel with a strength that exceeds that of cartilage and fixation of this …