Long description:

Silk-based Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering, Regenerative and Precision Medicine, Second Edition is a must-have reference, providing comprehensive coverage of silk-based biomaterials and their importance in translational uses and biomedicine. This new edition considers the progress made in the past eight years, featuring many new chapters, including a discussion of cutting-edge fabrication methods and techniques, new and improved blends/composites, and an expanded range of applications in tissue engineering, regenerative and precision medicine. The book holistically reviews the types, structure and properties, processing methods, and specific biomedical applications for silk-based biomaterials.

This will be a vital resource for materials and tissue engineering scientists, R&D departments in industry and academia, and academics interested in biomaterials, regenerative, and precision medicine.

Table of Contents:

1. Historical Silk Biomaterials2. Processing of Bombyx mori silk for use in biomedical and regenerative applications3. Cellular interaction with sericin: A basis for non-communicable and infectious diseases4. Tunable silk-based matrices using ionic liquids and their biomedical applications5. Biodegradability of silk biomaterials6. Engineering enzymatic and photo-crosslinked silk-based hydrogels for regenerative medicine7. Vascularization in porous silk fibroin as therapeutic biomaterials8. Structure and properties of spider and silkworm silk for tissue engineering, scaffolds and medicine9. Recent trends in controlled drug delivery based on silk platforms10. Silk for cardiac tissue engineering11. Silk proteins for bioelectronic devices in healthcare 12. Silk optics and electronics13. Silk biomaterials for tendon and tendon-to-bone enthesis tissue engineering14. Spider silks and their blends as biomaterials: Recent advances and future opportunities15. Silk fibroin nanofibers and blends for skin tissue engineering applications16. 3D Bioprinting of Articular Cartilage using Silk Fibroin-Gelatin Bioink17. Artificial silk fibers as biomaterials and their applications in biomedicine18. Translation of a silk-based medical device from bench to bedside19. Immune responses to silk proteins in vitro and in vivo: Lessons learnt20. Assembling silk into nanomedicines21. Silk scaffolds for dental tissue engineering (subject to change)22. 3D bioprinting using silk biomaterial ink: Where we are trying to move?23. Non-mulberry silk based biomaterials: Biomedical applications, current status and future perspective24. Silk protein: An emerging biomaterial for tumor modeling25. Microfibrillated silks and their potential applications26. Trends in silk biomaterials: technological advances and future strategies27. Silk fibroin smart hydrogels: Recent progress in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine28. Microfluidic Engineering of Silk Fibroin Biomaterial