Sentences with phrase «hydrogels as a scaffold»

Specifically, she is examining hydrogels as a scaffold for tissue engineering and is working to develop an artificial cornea.

Her lab is examining hydrogels as a scaffold for tissue engineering.

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Researchers in the Rice lab of chemist and bioengineer Jeffrey Hartgerink had just such an experience with the hydrogels they developed as a synthetic scaffold to deliver drugs and encourage the growth of cells and blood vessels for new tissue.

Engineers at Rutgers - New Brunswick and the New Jersey Institute of Technology worked with a hydrogel that has been used for decades in devices that generate motion and biomedical applications such as scaffolds for cells to grow on.

Standard tissue engineering involves seeding types of cells, such as those that form ear cartilage, onto a scaffold of a polymer material called a hydrogel.

Traditional hydrogels made up of either synthetic polymers or natural biomolecules often serve as passive scaffolds for molecular or cellular species, which render these materials unable to fully recapitulate the dynamic signaling involved in biological processes, such as cell / tissue development.

Next - generation «designer matrices» such as hybrid polyethylene glycol hydrogels or microengineered collagen scaffolds, combined with a well - defined set of laminins, may better fulfill the niche requirements of organoids and may be customized for a specific type of tissue / organoid (2,6).

Hydrogel can be used as a scaffold for engineering artificial brain tissue and promotes the development of neurons...