Biomimetic Strategies to Enhance Bone Tissue Healing, Remodeling and Regeneration

Dear Colleagues,

Bone tissue displays a number of unique chemical, physical, and biological characteristics which make it one of the most fascinating tissues in the body. Bone tissue plays an important physical role in providing structural support for our bodies and the foundation for tendon and ligament attachment for movement. Bone tissue also provides a physical environment for the protection of bone marrow tissue and internal organs. Bone tissue serves as a chemical storage depot for calcium and phosphate ions. These ions play a critically important role in a host of biological processes that are vital for life. These factors add to the importance of developing effective design strategies to maintain bone tissue health across the age spectrum from youth through to old age. One of the most important considerations in designing materials to enhance bone healing involves ensuring that the intervention is able to accompany the orchestra that resonates during bone tissue healing and remodeling without eliciting unfavorable effects.

Biomimetic design principles are based on learning from, modeling, and mimicking the processes that naturally occur during biological processes. Biomimetic design strategies and principles can be used to enhance the healing and remodeling of bone at the whole tissue, cellular, and subcellular levels and have shown much promise for future innovations in treatment. The focus of our Special Issue, entitled “Biomimetic Strategies to Enhance Bone Tissue Healing, Remodeling and Regeneration”, is to shine a spotlight on some of the key research studies that are being conducted in this field. These studies push the boundaries of our understanding of hard tissue healing phenomena and will pave the way for making great advances in optimizing skeletal health for life on Earth as well as the challenges of space travel as we venture beyond the earth.

Dr. Otto Carl Wilson, Jr.
Guest Editor

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• biomimetic strategies
• bone repair
• 3D scaffolds
• bioceramics
• bone grafts
• orthopedic implants
• bionic prostheses
• bioresorbable material
• biomechanics