This review suggests that self-organizing tissues like organoids could revolutionize material production by enabling sustainable and complex biological systems, such as spider silk glands, to surpass current synthetic designs, though challenges in model species expansion and production scaling remain.
December 2025 in “Bioengineering” This review explains that dysregulated sebum secretion and composition contribute to acne and impaired skin barriers while highlighting factors like diet and hormones affecting sebaceous activity, and identifies novel molecular targets and model systems for future therapeutic developments.
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December 2014 in “Stem Cells and Cloning Advances and Applications” This article reviews the potential and current applications of adult oral stem cells in regenerative medicine, highlighting promising animal model results but noting that few human clinical trials have yet been conducted.
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March 2023 in “Stem Cell Research & Therapy” In this study, epidermal stem cells were found to enhance blood vessel formation and support successful one-step transplantation of tissue-engineered skin in a rat model.
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February 2025 in “Journal of Nanobiotechnology” In this study, researchers found that using bioinspired nanovesicles derived from inflammation memory-activated epidermal stem cells effectively promoted healing in diabetic wounds by reprogramming neutrophils to an anti-inflammatory phenotype in both laboratory and animal models.
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January 2013 in “Inflammation and Regeneration” This review examines recent developments in tooth regeneration therapies using mesenchymal stem cells, but it reports no new clinical findings.
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February 2024 in “Pharmaceutics” This review highlights that while chitosan-based wound dressings with silver nanoparticles show promise for treating infected wounds due to enhanced antimicrobial activity, further studies are needed to address their in vivo toxicity and evaluate their efficacy in infectious animal models.
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May 2023 in “Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology” This review explores the potential of multifunctional bioscaffolds in skin tissue engineering, highlighting their successful biological performance in vitro and in vivo animal models, while also identifying the demand for technological advancements to improve wound healing applications in clinical settings.
August 2026 in “Journal of Functional Biomaterials” In this study, researchers developed a collagen and bacterial cellulose-based dressing loaded with bacitracin, which exhibited enhanced antibacterial activity, improved wound healing, and reduced inflammation in a murine infected-wound model, suggesting its potential for clinical use in treating infected wounds.
May 2026 in “Organoid Research” This review discusses recent advancements in hair follicle organoid technology for alopecia treatment but presents no new experimental results, emphasizing the potential for clinical applications and drug screening.
May 2026 in “Medical Sciences” This review found that vesicle-based therapies, including mammalian MSC-derived and plant-derived vesicles, consistently promote wound healing in preclinical models of thermal injury and may offer a safer alternative to live cell transplants.
February 2026 in “Chemical Engineering Journal” This study found that a novel nano-engineered platform, PCA, significantly promoted hair regeneration in an androgenetic alopecia mouse model by enhancing angiogenesis and hair follicle stem cell proliferation, showing promise for future hair regrowth treatments.
February 2026 in “Advanced Sensor Research” In this review, researchers examined advanced sensing technologies and bioelectronic interfaces that could improve understanding of the skin–brain axis, highlighting challenges and strategies for integrating these platforms into models for studying skin and neural interactions.
November 2025 in “Advanced Science” In this study, researchers found that a cold atmospheric plasma-activated hydrogel containing interleukin-2 significantly enhanced hair regeneration in a depilated mouse model, promoting larger hair follicles and faster hair growth phase transition, suggesting it as a potential treatment for hair loss.
January 2024 in “Biomaterials Research” This study found that human hair follicle dermal papilla cells cultivated as 3D spheroids in hexanoyl glycol chitosan-coated dishes formed hair-like structures, with minoxidil enhancing growth, and successfully integrated into artificial skin models, suggesting advancements for hair loss treatments and skin restoration therapies.
November 2022 in “Journal of Nanobiotechnology” In this study, researchers used a new method with platelet-rich plasma-loaded microcarriers to enhance dermal papilla cell activity and hair follicle regeneration, achieving significant hair and vessel growth in a mouse model compared to control groups.
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August 2013 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study demonstrated that cultured human dermal papilla cells can induce full hair follicle formation when combined with neonatal foreskin keratinocytes in a grafted dermal-epidermal construct on mice.
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August 2015 in “Journal of functional biomaterials” This review examines cell-based therapies for limbal stem cell deficiency, highlighting epidermal and hair follicle-derived stem cells as promising candidates for future clinical trials, but reports no new clinical findings.
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July 2011 in “Wound Repair and Regeneration” This article proposes several potential approaches for scar prevention and therapy, including anti-transforming growth factor-β strategies and tissue-engineered skin, but reports no new clinical results.
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December 2024 in “Nano Research” In a study on diabetic mice, researchers developed a protein-based hydrogel that leverages zinc ions and the natural compound phellopterin to promote cutaneous nerve regeneration, angiogenesis, and tissue remodeling in diabetic wounds, highlighting its potential for advanced wound therapy.
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July 2021 in “Dermatology and Therapy” This review highlights promising recent advances in therapies for epidermolysis bullosa, including gene therapy and stem cell approaches, but reports no definitive cures and emphasizes the need for further research.
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June 2012 in “Physiology” This review discusses current airway regeneration research efforts and reports no new experimental results, highlighting the need for clinical interventions to enhance airway repair.
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January 2026 in “Cell Discovery” This study introduced the concept of spatiotemporal clocks to understand how different phases of mammalian wound healing are coordinated, with a focus on the spatial domains and oscillatory molecular signals involved, while highlighting the potential for regenerative therapeutic strategies.
May 2026 in “Organoid Research” This review highlights recent advancements in the engineering of skin organoids using hydrogels, which improve their structural and functional fidelity by supporting the architecture and integration of vascular and neural components, promising to enhance regenerative medicine, drug discovery, and complex skin disorder studies.
This review highlights that surface mechanical regulation can program macrophage behavior through specific mechanical cues on material surfaces, potentially advancing immunotherapies and regenerative medicine by enabling precise control over macrophage functions.
January 2026 in “Frontiers in Drug Discovery” This study highlights that while advances in dermatology, such as biologics and JAK inhibitors, have improved treatments for conditions like atopic dermatitis and psoriasis, challenges remain, including issues with lasting efficacy and the need for more personalized therapies.
January 2026 in “Journal of Biomedical Research” This review discusses the potential of small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) as next-generation therapeutics, noting their ability to overcome biological barriers and modulate cellular environments for various diseases.
This study revealed that during avian skin development, complex tissue architecture results from specific cellular flows and mechanical processes that guide feather bud protrusion and elongation, with distinct differences noted in scale development, where rigidity restricts such transformations.
May 2025 in “Antioxidants” This review highlights how natural products with antioxidant properties can modulate the Wnt signaling pathway, potentially influencing various pathological conditions such as cancer, stroke, and regenerative medicine. It also addresses controversies in the compounds' mechanisms across different models and suggests research directions for future studies.
February 2024 in “Oriental Journal of Chemistry/Oriental journal of chemistry” This review reports various ethnomedicinal uses, phytochemical components, and potential pharmacological effects of Eclipta alba, highlighting benefits like wound healing and neuroprotection, though it underscores the need for further mechanism-based studies and clinical trials.