Mechanical properties of extracellular matrices (ECMs) regulate essential cell behaviours,
including differentiation, migration and proliferation, through mechanotransduction. Studies …

Biomaterials with the ability to self-heal and recover their structural integrity offer many
advantages for applications in biomedicine. The past decade has witnessed the rapid …

Hydrogels are attractive materials for tissue engineering, but efforts to date have shown
limited ability to produce the microstructural features necessary to promote cellular self …

The applications of hydrogels have expanded significantly due to their versatile, highly
tunable properties and breakthroughs in biomaterial technologies. In this review, we cover …

The healing of diabetic wounds is hindered by various factors, including bacterial infection,
macrophage dysfunction, excess proinflammatory cytokines, high levels of reactive oxygen …

Light-based vat-polymerization bioprinting enables computer-aided patterning of 3D cell-
laden structures in a point-by-point, layer-by-layer or volumetric manner, using vat (vats) …

Hydrogel is a type of versatile platform with various biomedical applications after rational
structure and functional design that leverages on material engineering to modulate its …

The traditional two-dimensional (2D) in vitro cell culture system (on a flat support) has long
been used in cancer research. However, this system cannot be fully translated into clinical …

How cells sense tissue stiffness to guide cell migration is a fundamental question in
development, fibrosis and cancer. Although durotaxis—cell migration towards increasing …

Antibiotics are essential drugs used to treat pathogenic bacteria, but their prolonged use
contributes to the development and spread of drug-resistant microorganisms. Antibiotic …