These data suggest that engineered nanotopographical cues may influence both EC and VSMC behavior in a manner that may be useful for stent or other vascular applications.
Directing regenerative neural pathfinding with engineered surface cues to specific stimulatory elements will potentially improve the neural-prosthesis interface and lead to enhanced functional outcomes.
Ultimately, the capacity to guide regenerative neurite growth to spatially specific stimulating elements will require strong adherence to engineered guidance cues and may include precision turning at specific points.
The ability to understand neurite response to engineered physical cues and mechanical properties such as matrix stiffness will allow the development of advanced biomaterials that direct de novo neurite growth to address the spatial signal resolution limitations of current neural prosthetics.
With Mika beside me, the impassive studio engineer cues a series of tracks - Blame it on the Girls, which sounds like Prince in his prime; the Pet Shop Boys-redolent Rain; a full-blown ballad, I See You, and a handful more - any of which might frankly be a hit.
The capability to engineer microenvironmental cues to direct a stem cell population toward multiple fates, simultaneously, in spatially defined regions is important for understanding the maintenance and repair of multi-tissue units.
When he arrived at the mixing stage, the engineers cued up a scene: Jake's avatar squaring off against a big, rhinolike creature with the facial structure of a hammerhead shark.
With a few minutes remaining before Eno has to leave with a bag of watercress for a dinner party, he has his recording engineer cue up a work in progress, one of a new series of "3D songs" named after extinct gods.
A poor prodigy turned hydraulics engineer (cue E-40's "Poor Man's Hydraulics"), Hu now oversees $1.9T (that's T for trillion) in reserves.
Hydrogels are three-dimensional (3D) water-based matrices that can be engineered to incorporate bioactive cues and be biodegradable [12,13], thereby providing a pericellular microenvironment reminiscent of the native tissue for encapsulated cells [14].
