This paper describes the set of two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) resources currently available from the ExPASy proteomics Web server. These resources include the SWISS-2DPAGE database, 2-DE software packages, 2-DE technical and educational services, as well as indexes and search engines for 2-DE related sites over the Internet.
The World-Wide Web is an unstructured, multimedia and multilingual information network. While most efforts have addressed the structuring issue, very few attempts have been proposed to provide support for multilingual information retrieval. Yet, medical information is now available all over the world. The MARVIN (Multi-Agent Retrieval Vagabond on Information Network) softbot and its associated medical search engine MedHunt (Medical Hunter) are a solution for helping people, who only understand a few languages, to access multilingual information.
Biomaterials play a pivotal role in regenerative medicine, which aims to regenerate and replace lost/dysfunctional tissues or organs. Biomaterials (scaffolds) serve as temporary 3D substrates to guide neo tissue formation and organization. It is often beneficial for a scaffolding material to mimic the characteristics of extracellular matrix (ECM) at the nanometer scale and to induce certain natural developmental or/and wound healing processes for tissue regeneration applications. This article reviews the fabrication and modification technologies for nanofibrous, nanocomposite, and nanostructured drug‐delivering scaffolds. ECM‐mimicking nanostructured biomaterials have been shown to actively regulate cellular responses including attachment, proliferation, differentiation, and matrix deposition. Nanoscaled drug delivery systems can be successfully incorporated into a porous 3D scaffold to enhance the tissue regeneration capacity. In conclusion, nanostructured biomateials are a very exciting and rapidly expanding research area, and are providing new enabling technologies for regenerative medicine.
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