The transparent cornea provides two-thirds of the refractive power of the eye and serves as a protective barrier through unique adaptations of the cells and the ECM. The stromal ECM connective tissue ...

While the soft mechanics and tunable cell interactions facilitated by hydrogels have attracted significant interest in the development of functional hydrogel-based tissue engineering scaffolds, ...

Mesenchymal stromal cells, commonly referred to as MSCs, are a type of multipotent stem cells that are typically extracted from adipose tissue and bone marrow. In the field of tissue engineering and ...