Bookedited by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, Kursad Turksen, Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Contents:
Derivation and network formation of vascular cells from human pluripotent stem cells
High-throughput cell aggregate culture for stem cell chondrogenesis
Microfluidic device to culture 3D in vitro human capillary networks
Multifunction co-culture model for evaluating cell-cell interactions
Multiwell plate tools for controlling cellular alignment with grooved topography
Bioreactor cultivation of anatomically shaped human bone grafts
Determining the role of matrix compliance in the differentiation of mammary stem cells
Conjugation of proteins to polymer chains to create multivalent molecules
An assay to quantify chemotactic properties of degradation products from extracellular matrix
Biomimetic strategies incorporating enzymes into CaP coatings mimicking the in vivo environment
Fabrication of biofunctionalized, cell-laden macroporous 3D PEG hydrogels as bone marrow analogs for the cultivation of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells
Extracellular matrix mimetic peptide scaffolds for neural stem cell culture and differentiation
The delivery and evaluation of RNAi therapeutics for heterotopic ossification pathologies
Mimicking bone microenvironment for directing adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells into osteogenic differentiation
Cultivation of human bone-like tissue from pluripotent stem cell-derived osteogenic progenitors in perfusion bioreactors.