by Steve Dragos | Apr 16, 2026 | Research Highlights
Antifreeze protein delivery sounds a little unusual at first, but the problem behind it is fairly practical. Antifreeze proteins have been studied for years because of the way they interact with ice crystal growth and ice recrystallization, which makes them...
by Steve Dragos | Apr 9, 2026 | Research Highlights
Tendon tissue engineering often looks straightforward on paper. Make an aligned scaffold, seed cells, add a differentiation cue, then wait for the construct to move in the right direction. In practice, it usually gets messier than that. Tendon cells and tendon-like...
by Steve Dragos | Apr 2, 2026 | Research Highlights
Osteosarcoma research (like much of the cancer field in general) has had a persistent problem for years. The standard 2D dish is too simple, animal models are slow and messy in their own ways, and somewhere in between there is still a real need for a tumour model that...
by Steve Dragos | Mar 26, 2026 | Research Highlights
Myopia (nearsightedness) is usually described in optical terms, but the tissue story underneath it shouldn’t be ignored. As the eye elongates in myopia, the sclera is part of what changes with it. That has pushed more attention toward scleral cross-linking as a...
by Steve Dragos | Mar 19, 2026 | Research Highlights
Back pain is easy to describe in symptoms and much harder to pin down at the tissue level. In a degenerated intervertebral disc, the nucleus pulposus is not quite doing the same job anymore. It loses some of the hydrated, proteoglycan-rich character that normally...
