Spinal cord injury: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic interventions

X Hu, W Xu, Y Ren, Z Wang, X He, R Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) remains a severe condition with an extremely high disability rate.
The challenges of SCI repair include its complex pathological mechanisms and the …

Engineered hydrogels for mechanobiology

U Blache, EM Ford, B Ha, L Rijns… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Cells' local mechanical environment can be as important in guiding cellular responses as
many well-characterized biochemical cues. Hydrogels that mimic the native extracellular …

Two decades of Martini: Better beads, broader scope

SJ Marrink, L Monticelli, MN Melo… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Martini model, a coarse‐grained force field for molecular dynamics simulations, has
been around for nearly two decades. Originally developed for lipid‐based systems by the …

Chiral supramolecular polymers

F García, R Gómez, L Sánchez - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
As an active branch within the field of supramolecular polymers, chiral supramolecular
polymers (SPs) are an excellent benchmark to generate helical structures that can clarify the …

Robust and multifunctional nanoparticles assembled from natural polyphenols and metformin for efficient spinal cord regeneration

T Yuan, T Wang, J Zhang, P Liu, J Xu, Z Gu, J Xu, Y Li - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
The treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI) remains unsatisfactory owing to the complex
pathophysiological microenvironments at the injury site and the limited regenerative …

Hierarchical materials from high information content macromolecular building blocks: construction, dynamic interventions, and prediction

L Shao, J Ma, JL Prelesnik, Y Zhou, M Nguyen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hierarchical materials that exhibit order over multiple length scales are ubiquitous in nature.
Because hierarchy gives rise to unique properties and functions, many have sought …

Synthetic extracellular matrices with function-encoding peptides

C Ligorio, A Mata - Nature reviews bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
The communication of cells with their surroundings is mostly encoded in the epitopes of
structural and signalling proteins present in the extracellular matrix (ECM). These peptide …

Histidine as a key modulator of molecular self-assembly: Peptide-based supramolecular materials inspired by biological systems

Y Chen, K Tao, W Ji, VB Kumar, S Rencus-Lazar… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Histidine, a versatile proteinogenic amino acid, plays a broad range of roles in all living
organisms and behaves as a key mediator of the interactions of biomolecules with inorganic …

Artificial extracellular matrix scaffolds of mobile molecules enhance maturation of human stem cell-derived neurons

Z Álvarez, JA Ortega, K Sato, IR Sasselli… - Cell stem cell, 2023 - cell.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) technologies offer a unique resource for
modeling neurological diseases. However, iPSC models are fraught with technical …

[HTML][HTML] Biomaterials to enhance stem cell transplantation

BN Kharbikar, P Mohindra, TA Desai - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The successful transplantation of stem cells has the potential to transform regenerative
medicine approaches and open promising avenues to repair, replace, and regenerate …