Jing Wang,Yiye Li,Guangjun Nie
Jing Wang
Biomolecule-based nanostructures are inherently multifunctional and harbour diverse biological activities, which can be explored for cancer nanomedicine. The supramolecular properties of biomolecules can be precisely programmed for the desi...
Collagen: quantification, biomechanics, and role of minor subtypes in cartilage [0.03%]
胶原蛋白：定量、生物力学及其亚型在软骨中的作用
Benjamin J Bielajew,Jerry C Hu,Kyriacos A Athanasiou
Benjamin J Bielajew
Collagen is a ubiquitous biomaterial in vertebrate animals. Although each of its 28 subtypes contributes to the functions of many different tissues in the body, most studies on collagen or collagenous tissues have focussed on only one or tw...
Christine Horejs
Christine Horejs
Nature Reviews Materials speaks to Donald Ingber, Founding Director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, about the animal testing conundrum and the importance of human-relevant models in biomedi...
Sonia Contera
Sonia Contera
The future of our species and planet hinges on our scientific creativity to tackle future challenges. However, the trust of the public in scientific processes needs to be earned and kept, which will require inclusive, self-reflecting, hones...
Christine Horejs
Christine Horejs
Partho Protim Adhikary,Qurrat Ul Ain,Andreas Christian Hocke et al.
Partho Protim Adhikary et al.
Scientists worldwide struggle to identify suitable animal models to study SARS-CoV-2 infections. Interspecies-related differences, such as host specificity, divergent immune responses, or the unavailability of species-specific reagents hamp...
Selin Olenik,Hong Seok Lee,Firat Güder
Selin Olenik
Near-field communication emerged as a high-security, wireless, short-range, data exchange technology nearly two decades ago; its ability to simultaneously transfer power and data between devices offers exciting opportunities for the design ...
Engineering organoids [0.03%]
工程器官组织学
Moritz Hofer,Matthias P Lutolf
Moritz Hofer
Organoids are in vitro miniaturized and simplified model systems of organs that have gained enormous interest for modelling tissue development and disease, and for personalized medicine, drug screening and cell therapy. Despite considerable...
Michael J Kratochvil,Alexis J Seymour,Thomas L Li et al.
Michael J Kratochvil et al.
Organoids are 3D cell culture systems that mimic some of the structural and functional characteristics of an organ. Organoid cultures provide the opportunity to study organ-level biology in models that mimic human physiology more closely th...
Building a virtual community to support and celebrate the success of Latinx scientists [0.03%]
建立虚拟社区以支持和庆祝拉美裔科学家的成功
Brian A Aguado,Ana M Porras
Brian A Aguado
In February 2019, we co-founded LatinXinBME to build a diverse and welcoming virtual community of Latinx researchers in biomedical engineering (BME). We leverage digital tools and community mentoring approaches to support our members and to...