Main description:

Silks are revolutionary and widely used natural biomaterials for scaffolding and other matrices. This natural biomaterial can be easily obtained and fabricated into different formats with specialized properties, particularly for tissue engineering, regenerative and biomedicine.

Silk-based Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering, Regenerative and Precision Medicine, Second Edition is a must-have reference, providing comprehensive coverage of silk-based biomaterials and their importance in translational uses and biomedicine. This new edition considers the progress made in the past eight years. It features many new chapters, including a discussion of cutting-edge fabrication methods and techniques, new and improved blends/composites, and an expanded range of applications in tissue engineering, regenerative and precision medicine.

The book holistically reviews the types, structure and properties, processing methods, and specific biomedical applications for silk-based biomaterials. Silk-based Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering, Regenerative and Precision Medicine, Second Edition is a vital resource for materials and tissue engineering scientists, R&D departments in industry and academia, and academics interested in biomaterials, regenerative, and precision medicine.

Contents:

1. Historical Silk Biomaterials 2. Processing of Bombyx mori silk for use in biomedical and regenerative applications 3. Cellular interaction with sericin: A basis for non-communicable and infectious diseases 4. Tunable silk-based matrices using ionic liquids and their biomedical applications 5. Biodegradability of silk biomaterials 6. Engineering enzymatic and photo-crosslinked silk-based hydrogels for regenerative medicine 7. Vascularization in porous silk fibroin as therapeutic biomaterials 8. Structure and properties of spider and silkworm silk for tissue engineering, scaffolds and medicine 9. Recent trends in controlled drug delivery based on silk platforms 10. Silk for cardiac tissue engineering 11. Silk proteins for bioelectronic devices in healthcare 12. Silk optics and electronics 13. Silk biomaterials for tendon and tendon-to-bone enthesis tissue engineering 14. Spider silks and their blends as biomaterials: Recent advances and future opportunities 15. Silk fibroin nanofibers and blends for skin tissue engineering applications 16. 3D Bioprinting of Articular Cartilage using Silk Fibroin-Gelatin Bioink 17. Artificial silk fibers as biomaterials and their applications in biomedicine 18. Translation of a silk-based medical device from bench to bedside 19. Immune responses to silk proteins in vitro and in vivo: Lessons learnt 20. Assembling silk into nanomedicines 21. Silk scaffolds for dental tissue engineering (subject to change) 22. 3D bioprinting using silk biomaterial ink: Where we are trying to move? 23. Non-mulberry silk based biomaterials: Biomedical applications, current status and future perspective 24. Silk protein: An emerging biomaterial for tumor modeling 25. Microfibrillated silks and their potential applications 26. Trends in silk biomaterials: technological advances and future strategies 27. Silk fibroin smart hydrogels: Recent progress in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine 28. Microfluidic Engineering of Silk Fibroin Biomaterial