Biotech Law 
Spheroid culture as a tool for creating 3D complex tissues
Eelco Fennema, Nicolas Rivron, Jeroen Rouwkema, Clemens van Blitterswijk, Jan de Boer. Highlights► Spheroids improve the relevance of in vitro results. ► Spheroids serve as biological models of native tissues or engineered solutions. ► Spheroids are used as building blocks … Continue reading
Flocculation as a low-cost method for harvesting microalgae for bulk biomass production
Dries Vandamme, Imogen Foubert, Koenraad Muylaert. Highlights► Microalgae are a promising new source of biomass for production of food, feed, fuel, or chemicals, but the cost and energy demand of large-scale production is still too high. ► An effi….
Biobased plastics in a bioeconomy
J.C. Philp, R.J. Ritchie, K. Guy. Bioeconomy plans include a biobased industries sector in which some oil-derived plastics and chemicals are replaced by new or equivalent products derived, at least partially, from biomass. Some of….
Combination approaches to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria
Roberta J. Worthington, Christian Melander. Highlights► Combination approaches to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria. ► The problem of drug-resistant bacterial infections continues to worsen. ► Bacteria will inevitably acquire resistance a….
Extracellular matrix scaffolds for cartilage and bone regeneration
Kim E.M. Benders, P. René van Weeren, Stephen F. Badylak, Daniël B.F. Saris, Wouter J.A. Dhert, Jos Malda. Highlights► Extracellular matrix scaffolds provide a bioactive platform for tissue regeneration. ► Osteochondral defect repair remains a great orthopedic and socioeconomic burden. … Continue reading
Network analysis: tackling complex data to study plant metabolism
David Toubiana, Alisdair R. Fernie, Zoran Nikoloski, Aaron Fait. Highlights► Network analysis approaches to study cellular functions ► From metabolite profiling to regulatory mechanisms with the aid of networks.Incomplete knowledge of biochemical pathways makes….
Nanoproteomics: a new sprout from emerging links between nanotechnology and proteomics
Lee Jia, Yusheng Lu, Jingwei Shao, Xing-Jie Liang, Yan Xu. Highlights► Current proteomic techniques cannot detect all peptide fingerprints in biosamples. ► Nanotechnology has recently built a technical platform to improve biocompatibility, specificity, re….
Then and now: hypes and hopes of regenerative medicine
Annabelle S. Slingerland, Anthal I.P.M. Smits, Carlijn V.C. Bouten.
Bioprinting for stem cell research
Savas Tasoglu, Utkan Demirci. Recently, there has been growing interest in applying bioprinting techniques to stem cell research. Several bioprinting methods have been developed utilizing acoustics, piezoelectricity, and laser….
