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3D bioactive composite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering.

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This review will consider the ideal properties of bioactive composite 3D scaffolds and examine recent use of polymers, hydrogels, metals, ceramics and bio-glasses in BTE.
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This article is published in Bioactive Materials.The article was published on 2017-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 803 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bone regeneration.

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Organ Printing: Tissue Spheroids as Building Blocks

TL;DR: Organ printing can be defined as layer-by-layer additive robotic biofabrication of three-dimensional functional living macrotissues and organ constructs using tissue spheroids as building blocks.
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Recent advances in biomaterials for 3D scaffolds: A review.

TL;DR: A comprehensive summary of recent trends in development of single- (metal, ceramics and polymers), composite-type and cell-laden scaffolds that in addition to mechanical support, promote simultaneous tissue growth, and deliver different molecules or cells with therapeutic or facilitating regeneration effect is offered.

The return of a forgotten polymer : Polycaprolactone in the 21st century

TL;DR: Polycaprolactone (PCL) was used in the biomaterials field and a number of drug-delivery devices for up to 3-4 years as discussed by the authors.
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Fabrication of Scaffolds for Bone-Tissue Regeneration.

TL;DR: The state of the art in the rapidly developing field of bone tissue engineering is described, where many disciplines, such as material science, mechanical engineering, clinical medicine and genetics, are interconnected.

Biofabrication of osteochondral tissue equivalents by printing topologically defined, cell-laden hydrogel scaffolds

TL;DR: The use of a 3D fiber deposition (3DF) technique for the fabrication of cell-laden, heterogeneous hydrogel constructs for potential use as osteochondral grafts is characterized and the possibility of manufacturing viable centimeter-scaled structured tissues by the 3DF technique is demonstrated.
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Mussel-Inspired Surface Chemistry for Multifunctional Coatings

TL;DR: Inspired by the composition of adhesive proteins in mussels, dopamine self-polymerization is used to form thin, surface-adherent polydopamine films onto a wide range of inorganic and organic materials, including noble metals, oxides, polymers, semiconductors, and ceramics.
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Projections of primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty in the United States from 2005 to 2030.

TL;DR: These large projected increases in demand for total hip and knee arthroplasties provide a quantitative basis for future policy decisions related to the numbers of orthopaedic surgeons needed to perform these procedures and the deployment of appropriate resources to serve this need.
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A review on polymer nanofibers by electrospinning and their applications in nanocomposites

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review is presented on the researches and developments related to electrospun polymer nanofibers including processing, structure and property characterization, applications, and modeling and simulations.
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Porosity of 3D biomaterial scaffolds and osteogenesis.

TL;DR: New fabrication techniques, such as solid-free form fabrication, can potentially be used to generate scaffolds with morphological and mechanical properties more selectively designed to meet the specificity of bone-repair needs.
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Scaffolds in tissue engineering bone and cartilage.

TL;DR: Research on the tissue engineering of bone and cartilage from the polymeric scaffold point of view is reviews from a biodegradable and bioresorbable perspective.
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