Biomaterials and Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering Applications and Cancer Therapies 2018
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2018) | Viewed by 23772
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Interests: biofabrication; tissue engineering scaffolds; mechanical properties; 3D printing
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Dear Colleagues,
Millions of people suffer from tissue/organ injuries, such as peripheral nerve injuries and heart attacks. Tissue/organ transplantation is the gold standard to treat some of these types of injuries, but is severely restricted as an option due to the limited availability of donor tissues/organs. Tissue engineering (TE) is an emerging field that aims to produce tissue/organ substitutes or scaffolds that are made from biomaterials, ultimately providing a permanent solution and thus improving upon current treatment approaches. Considerable and encouraging progress has been making in the development of biomaterials and scaffolds in various TE applications, as well as in cancer therapies by targeting cancer stem cells. This Special Issue aims at providing a platform to survey and report the recent development and advance in this field, which may include, but is not limited to, biomaterials, design and fabrication of scaffolds, 3D printing, modeling scaffolds, characterization of biomaterials and/or scaffolds in vitro and/or in vivo, scaffold-based strategies for TE applications, and/or scaffold-based strategies for cancer therapies.
This Special Issue also publishes the selected papers from Bioprinting & 3D-Printing in the Life Sciences EU 2018, held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 7-8 June 2018.
Prof. Dr. Daniel X.B. Chen
Guest Editor
Keywords
- biomaterials
- cancer therapy
- cell growth
- characterization
- design
- fabrication
- in vitro; in vivo
- modeling
- stem cells
- tissue engineering
- tissue regeneration
- tissue scaffolds
- 3D printing
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