Bioengineering Approaches to Accelerate Clinical Translation of Stem Cell Therapies Treating Osteochondral Diseases

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Adhesive hydrogels for improving the persistence of MSCs in the host. (a) Mussel-inspired tissue-adhesive cell carriers; (b) assessment of mussel-inspired tissue-adhesive cell carriers used in cartilage regeneration; (c) phototriggered tissue-integrable hydrogel developed for prolonging stem cell retention in situ. Reproduced with permission [18, 22].

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