Biomaterials with unique properties have emerged with the potential for advances in areas such as heart valve prostheses, precise drug delivery systems, and tissue engineering. Rosalyn Abbott, PhD, ...

Soft, flexible hydrogels have enabled significant advancements in engineering biological tissue by mimicking the natural ...

The new open-access journal Biomedical Materials Science has launched with an editorial outlining its mission to connect ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Guillermo A. Ameer has been elected a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) by the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering ...

NSF CAREER award recipient Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez, an assistant professor of bioengineering in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, leads research at the ...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) announced today that David L. Kaplan, Ph.D., will head the brand-new, web-only journal ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering™ as editor-in-chief. With the first ...

Strategies that increase the functional durability of implanted biomaterials suggest that retention of function might be more important than retention of the biomaterial itself. This Collection is ...

Our master's or doctorate in biomedical engineering program develops new devices at the interface of engineering, biology, and medicine. We emphasize research and education in cardiovascular ...

Devices, implants, and materials for bone and tissue regeneration are transforming medical options for people after disease or injury. The National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials (NERCB) ...

Research assistant Katelyn Wahl and biomedical engineering graduate student Erica Guelfi also contributed to the study. By focusing on the physical engineering of biomaterials, Lee's lab is working to ...

StemJournal, a new open access, peer-reviewed journal published by IOS Press, announces publication of its inaugural article, "Combining Stem Cells and Biomaterial Scaffolds for Constructing Tissues ...

Researchers in the UK and the United States have succeeded in 'fine tuning' a new thermoplastic biomaterial to enable both the rate at which it degrades in the body and its mechanical properties to be ...