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This review highlights that synthetic biodegradable polymers like PVA, PCL, PLA, PLGA, PU, and PEO/PEG can address the limitations of natural polymers in wound healing, offering improved mechanical properties and slower degradation, thereby enhancing their application as wound dressings.

This study found that poly(butylene citramalate-co-butylene succinate) copolymers exhibit high toughness, recyclability, degradability, and biocompatibility, achieving complete wound healing with skin and hair follicle regeneration in 7 days.

This study explored using keratin extracted from human hair waste to create biodegradable bioplastic films, revealing promising potential for applications in packaging and disposable items due to their uniform surface morphology and ability to degrade with keratinophilic fungi.

This review examines the production and market of biodegradable surgical and beauty face masks made from biobased polymers, highlighting their potential environmental benefits but reports no new findings.

This review highlights how cyclodextrin-polysaccharide hybrids can advance drug delivery and environmental cleanup by improving the solubility and stability of hydrophobic molecules, serving as promising platforms for biomedical applications and efficient sorbents for wastewater treatment.

This study found that adjusting the polymer gel composition can create a more consistent release profile of finasteride with reduced initial burst release, enhancing patient compliance through in situ polymer precipitation.

This article reviews how biopolymers are utilized in cosmetics, highlighting their biodegradable and non-toxic properties, recent structural developments, novel applications, and safety considerations in the formulation of skin, hair, and oral care products.

This review examined the diverse therapeutic potentials of cannabinoids, highlighting their applications in pain, neurological, and cancer treatments, and emphasized the benefits of biodegradable polymers in improving drug delivery; however, further clinical trials are needed to fully explore these potentials.

This review discusses the applications of biopolymeric composites in controlled drug release, tissue engineering, and wound healing, but reports no new experimental results, highlighting the need for further development and analysis.

This paper describes the development of unique hydrogel skin scaffolds from plant-derived polysaccharide mixtures that may offer improved biocompatibility and mechanical properties for use in artificial skin.

This study found that biodegradable PLA particles released fluorochromes in a time-dependent manner on human skin, with BP-PLA particles releasing rapidly and DiAsp-PLA particles providing sustained release and accumulation in hair follicles.

This review highlights the transformative potential of bioinspired polymers in biomedical engineering, focusing on their roles in enhancing tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and other biomedical applications, with innovations including mimicking the extracellular matrix, self-healing, antibacterial properties, and cancer therapy.

This study found that novel biodegradable nanocarriers with highly hydrophobic cores significantly increased the solubility and sustained release of hydrophobic drugs and dyes, showing promise for drug delivery applications.

In this review, recent advances in long-acting microneedle-based transdermal drug delivery systems are outlined, highlighting biodegradable polymers like PLA, PLGA, and PCL for sustained release and discussing challenges in clinical translation such as consistency in manufacturing and validating long-term efficacy and safety.

This study found that biodegradable hyperbranched polyesters improved the solubility and loading capacity of hydrophobic drugs, with complete pyrene release achieved in 16 days under enzymatic conditions.

This study reported that 4D-printed, aliphatic polycarbonate-based scaffolds supported adipose tissue engineering by allowing adipocyte infiltration and neovascularization in vivo, indicating potential for effective adipose tissue repair.

In this review, researchers explored thermo-responsive polymers and their applications in nanomedicine, highlighting their role in targeted drug delivery, gene therapy, and imaging, enabled by their temperature-sensitive phase transitions to ensure localized therapeutic action and minimize damage to healthy tissues.

In this study, researchers synthesized biomedical polyurethanes incorporating curcumin and varying PEG content to enhance water solubility and control curcumin release, finding that higher PEG content improved hydrophilicity, swelling, and degradation, while maintaining excellent antioxidant and antibacterial activities, suggesting promise for biomedical applications.

This review reports that biopolymer-based hydrogels show promise as wound dressings due to their biocompatibility, moisture retention, and ability to mimic the extracellular matrix, though challenges in mass production, safety, and clinical validation remain.

This study developed a degradable and bioactive citrate-based polyurethane adhesive that achieves rapid and strong tissue adhesion, exhibiting improved bonding strength in wet environments, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and hemostatic properties, with potential to enhance wound healing by promoting angiogenesis.

In this study, fluorescence microscopy revealed that a cationic cellulose ether derivative adsorbed onto hair fibers desorbed significantly when treated with sodium dodecylsulfate.

PLGA-based microneedles show promise for painless, long-term drug delivery but need design and safety improvements.

In this study, researchers developed a long-lasting antibacterial coating for medical implants by anchoring silver nanoparticles onto polyamide surfaces, demonstrating potential to improve implant safety and effectiveness by reducing infection and inflammation.

This review discusses bio-based polymers, highlighting their potential in wound healing applications, but reports no new clinical results.

This study found that integrating graphene oxide into a biodegradable composite made from discarded hair keratin enhanced its structural properties, biodegradability, and gas barrier performance, indicating potential use as an eco-friendly packaging material.

This study found that Pseudomonas DL7 completely degraded 600 mg/L of Sunset Yellow FCF in 48 hours at pH 9, indicating potential for biomineralization of this dye.

This study developed a biodegradable nonwoven textile using a starch-based biopolymer and fruit extracts, resulting in materials that are stronger, more hydrophilic, and capable of releasing beneficial compounds over 72 hours, positioning them for potential use in medical, healthcare, and cosmetic applications.

This study reports a method for fabricating biofunctional polymer fibers by using DNA-programmable cell-free protein synthesis integrated through solution blow spinning, enabling in situ protein production and potential applications in respirators, sampling swabs, and other advanced materials.

In this study, researchers developed de novo designed hetero-bifunctional proteins as an alternative approach for targeted protein degradation, successfully targeting BCL-xL for degradation in cells and inducing apoptosis, which may expand the range of addressable E3 ligases and disease targets.

This review discusses the unique properties, design, and fabrication of peptide hydrogels for biomedical applications, focusing on advances in drug delivery, gene therapy, and regenerative medicine; it reports no new clinical results.