Kenneth W. Ng

Breath of Fresh Air: Tissue-Engineered Tracheas for Airway Repair

Tissue-engineered tracheas move one step closer as a clinical treatment.

Sticks and Stones and Mending Bones

Prevascularized bone grafts may speed up bone healing in trauma or fractures with serious complications.

Stopping the Drilling and the Filling: Regenerating Teeth with Soluble Human Tooth Proteins

New research into human tooth proteins may lead to ways to regenerate tooth structures and treat tooth decay.

Spy vs. Spy: Recruiting Stem Cells to the War on Cancer

Mesenchymal stem cells can home in and deliver drug-carrying nanoparticles to brain tumors.

Target Acquired: Magnetic Nanoparticles Lock-On and Deliver

Magnetic fields can drive nanoparticles to implanted metal stents, allowing for targeted drug delivery to prevent restenosis in treated arteries.

Inspiration on Perspiration: Putting Sweat Glands into Skin Grafts

Incorporating encapsulated sweat gland cells into engineered skin tissue produces a more realistic skin graft and may improve patients’ quality of life.

Recycling Reagents to Improve Antibody Therapy

Engineering therapeutic antibodies to be recycled for repeated use in the body can extend the effectiveness of these biologics.

Antibiotic Augmentation of Allografts

A bone graft destined for transplantation can be coated with antibiotics, reducing adherent bacteria and thus the risk of infection to the recipient.