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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.

This review discusses the role of keratins in providing mechanical resilience to epithelial tissues and highlights recent therapeutic approaches for keratin diseases, but reports no new experimental findings.

This study examined argan oil inclusion complexes with β-CD, finding that these complexes improve the antibacterial efficacy, uniformity, and mechanical performance of hair treatment formulations while enhancing the durability of bleached hair, suggesting their potential as stable and effective cosmetic ingredients.

In this study, incorporating a novel amino acid compound into a hair-straightening formulation improved humidity-resistant straightening and enhanced the surface and mechanical properties of hair fibers, including increased bending stiffness, reduced friction, and better shape retention under high temperature and humidity conditions.

This study observed that increasing the γ-kerateine content in meta-kerateine materials led to reduced elasticity, solidity, and hydrolytic stability, and decreased hepatocyte attachment support.

This study explored the development of GelMet, an electrospun hybrid nanofiber scaffold made from gelatin and PEG methacrylate, which demonstrated strong mechanical properties and effectively supported cell growth in vitro, suggesting its potential for skin tissue engineering applications.

This review explores how combining extracellular vesicles with hydrogels and utilizing 3D bioprinting technologies creates innovative composite systems for wound healing, offering advanced mechanical and biological support, while addressing challenges like degradation and regulatory issues in clinical applications.

This study found that chemically modifying human hair through esterification or disulfide reduction and alkylation affects the hair's viscoelastic properties, including stability, integrity, and response to moisture.

This review summarizes the cell type distribution and functional significance of human keratins, emphasizing their roles in tumor diagnosis and potential clinical applications, and reports no new clinical findings.

This study found that keratin films made from human hair can potentially substitute for human nail plates in drug permeability studies, but they show higher sensitivity to penetration enhancers compared to bovine hooves.

This review discusses the role of lamins in development, tissue maintenance, and stress response, and does not report new experimental findings.

This study demonstrated that gelatine-based hydrogel foams loaded with platelet extracellular vesicles (pEVs) promoted full wound closure in a chronic wound rat model within 14 days, suggesting potential for personalized treatment of chronic diabetic wounds.

This study found that a new SIS-PEG sponge promoted rapid skin defect healing in mice and showed potential for reconstructing reconstituted skin with regenerated hair.

In this study, researchers developed an acellular bioscaffold made from ovine tendon collagen with an antibacterial coating for treating skin wounds. They found that genipin crosslinking improves the scaffold's properties, and with plasma polymerisation, it enhances antibacterial activity, potentially benefiting wound healing.

This study found that a newly constructed composite hydrogel dressing, made from silk fibroin, chitosan, and halloysite, promoted hair follicle neogenesis, angiogenesis tissue regeneration, and scar reduction.

This study found that an injectable calcium alginate-amelogenin hydrogel is biocompatible, degradable, anti-inflammatory, and promotes osteogenesis, which may enhance the bone healing process in jaw and facial bone defect areas by mediating the bone immune microenvironment.

This review article highlighted the diverse applications of functionalized materials from bacterial cellulose, detailing advances in both in situ and ex situ methods for enhancing these materials' properties, particularly for medical applications, and proposed directions for future research.

The composite dressing improved wound healing and hair growth in mice.

This study observed that hydrophobic modifications of hair matrix proteins significantly alter the humidity-dependent glass transition temperature of human hair.

This review discusses the potential of electrospun gelatin-based nanofiber dressings for wound healing and skin regeneration, detailing their properties, enhanced functionalities through crosslinking and bioactive components, and their application in treating challenging wound types like burns and diabetic wounds.

This review discusses ongoing concerns and advancements in the use of gelatin as a biomaterial in tissue engineering, highlighting improved tissue mimicry through techniques like 3D bioprinting and suggesting a future focus on disease detection and diagnosis rather than treatment.

In this review, bioengineered materials incorporating growth factors and cytokines were reported to enhance wound healing by sustaining drug delivery, reducing dosage, and minimizing side effects compared to traditional treatments.

This study reveals that transglutaminase activity is widespread in integumentary structures of mammals and birds, suggesting it plays a significant role in the cornification of hard skin appendages like nails and feathers.

This study developed a zinc-infused egg white and GelMA hydrogel that enhanced cellular processes crucial for wound healing, including fibroblast proliferation and collagen expression, and demonstrated promising biocompatibility and bioactivity in vivo, suggesting potential effectiveness in repairing damaged tissues.

This study developed a biomimetic 3D skin model with vascularization potential to assess the impact of nano-zinc oxide (nano-ZnO), finding that nano-ZnO significantly influenced genes related to apoptosis, inflammation, and oxidative stress in skin cells.

In this study, researchers developed a novel zinc oxide nanoflower-infused nanocomposite that demonstrated promising results in accelerating wound healing in a murine model, with enhanced angiogenesis, reduced inflammation, and improved collagen deposition compared to a control group.

This study found that a gel base with 0.2% potassium sorbate, 5% glycerin, and other specified components has optimal properties for use in telogen effluvium treatments.

This review outlines the design and engineering of multifunctional hydrogels, emphasizing their evolving biomedical applications, notably in controlled drug delivery, tissue support, and disease management, and discusses their potential for clinical translation.

This study reviewed chitosan composites, specifically those with silver or zinc oxide nanoparticles, highlighting their enhanced antimicrobial efficacy and potential biomedical applications despite pure chitosan's limitations such as pH sensitivity and poor solubility.

This review discusses recent advances in polydopamine-based biomaterials and their growing potential in personalized medicine, but reports no new experimental results; the authors highlight both opportunities and challenges for future applications.