1. Identification and application of polymers as biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine / Claire N. Medine ... [et al.] -- 2. Hydrogel as stem cell niche for in vivo applications in regenerative medicine / Xiaokang Li ... [et al.] -- 3. Fabrication and application of gradient hydrogels in cell and tissue engineering / Azadeh Seidi, Serge Ostrovidov, and Murugan Ramalingam -- 4. Smart biomaterial scaffold for in situ tissue regeneration / Jaehyun Kim ... [et al.] -- 5. Fabrication of 3D scaffolds and organ printing for tissue regeneration / Ferdous Khan and Sheikh R. Ahmad -- 6. Natural membranes as scaffold for biocompatible aortic valve leaflets : perspectives from pericardium? / Maria Cristina Vinci ... [et al.] -- 7. Spatially designed nanofibrous membranes for periodontal tissue regeneration / Marco C. Bottino, Yogesh K. Vohra, and Vinoy Thomas -- 8. Autoinductive scaffolds for osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells / Esmaiel Jabbari and Murugan Ramalingam -- 9. Ophthalmic applications of biomaterials in regenerative medicine / Victoria Kearns ... [et al.] -- 10. Calcium phosphates as scaffolds for mesenchymal stem cells / Iain R. Gibson -- 11. Bioactive glasses as composite components : technological advantages and bone tissue engineering applications / Elzbieta Pamula ... [et al.] -- 12. Processing metallic biomaterials for a better cell response / Ioana Demetrescu, Daniela Ionita, and Cristian Pirvu -- 13. Osteogenic adult stem cells and titanium constructs for repair and regeneration / Marcus J. Tillotson and Peter M. Brett -- 14. Stem cell response to biomaterial topography / Luong T.H. Nguyen ... [et al.] -- 15. Growth factors, stem cells, scaffolds and biomaterials for tendon regeneration / James Zhenggui Tang, Guo-Qiang Chen, and Nicholas R. Forsyth -- 16. Biomaterials and stem cells for myocardial repair / Jiashing Yu, Chao-Min Cheng, and Randall J. Lee -- 17. Perinatal stem cells in regenerative medicine / Bridget M. Deasy ... [et al.] -- 18. Adult stem cell survival strategies / Melanie Rodrigues, Linda G. Griffith, and Alan Wells -- 19. Immunobiology of biomaterial/mesenchymal stem cell interactions / Peiman Hematti and Summer Hanson -- 20. Autologous mesenchymal stem cells for tissue engineering in urology / Guihua Liu, Chunhua Deng, and Yuanyuan Zhang -- 21. Umbilical cord matrix mesenchymal stem cells : a potential allogenic cell source for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine / Nirmal S. Remya and Prabha D. Nair -- 22. Human embryonic stem cells and tissue regeneration / Odessa Yabut, Carissa Ritner, and Harold S. Bernstein -- 23. Clinical applications of mesenchymal stem cell-biomaterial constructs for tissue reconstruction / Summer Hanson and Peiman Hematti -- 24. Clinical aspects of the use of stem cells and biomaterials for bone repair and regeneration / Roger A. Brooks -- 25. Clinical translation of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine technologies / Alejandro Nieponice.