The use of naturally occurring materials as scaffolds to support cell growth and proliferation significantly impacted the origin and progress of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. However, the majority of these materials failed to provide adequate cues to guide cell differentiation toward the formation of new tissues. Over the past decade, a new generation of multifunctional and smart natural-...

This paper explores sport mega-events? impacts and their relation with urban sustainability based on physical, environmental, economic, and social?cultural dimensions. The physical impacts are singled out because, in the case of sport mega-events taking place in cities, it is advisable to incorporate this new dimension for lack of proper fit of the costliest Olympic projects in the three established dime...

Esta época, marcada pela omnipresença das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, objetiva “a era do ecrã-global” (LIPOVETSKY & SERROY, 2010b). A esta dinâmica não é alheia a contingência lusófona. No YouTube, as diversas comunidades lusófonas espelham a sua contingência, tendo por base a imagem e o vídeo. O objetivo deste artigo é o de analisar a dinâmica lusófona no YouTube, questionando: como est...

TERM field promised to generate new tissues using the principles of engineering in combination with an understanding and application of the biologic sciences, defying the boundaries of biomedicine. Twenty-five years have passed with scientific, regulatory, and societal challenges, a few translational successes and new roadmaps to be explored hasten by an increasingly aging population. From the conceptu...