Biomaterials for regenerative medicine

Regenerative Medicine has been gaining importance in recent years as a discipline that applies the principles of engineering and life sciences to the manufacturing of biological replacements, with the aim of maintaining, restoring or improving the function of organs or tissues in the human body. It is a strategy that includes the actions of different actors: cells, molecules for signalling or regulating biological processes, as well as the materials that have to be used as three-dimensional substrata for developing new tissues and organs. In this context, the development of new materials that are capable of not only mimicking structures in the human body, but also of actively interacting with biological systems and boosting their capacity for regeneration is an area has become an extremely important challenge.