**Meet the editor**

Dr Chao Lin is an associate professor and research director in nanomedicine at the Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanobiomedicine, affiliated to the School of Medicine, Tongji University (Shanghai, PR China). Before joining the institution, he was a postdoctoral fellow at MIRA-Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente (Enschede,

The Netherland). He received his PhD from the University of Twente in 2008 under the supervision of Professor Jan Feijen and Professor Johan F.J. Engbersen. He has authored 30 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and 2 book chapters. He serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. In 2007 he received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Regenerative Medicine 1** 

Chapter 2 **In-Situ Forming Biomimetic** 

Wei Xia and Jing Ni

Chapter 4 **Bioreducible Cationic Polymers** 

Chao Lin and Bo Lou

Chapter 5 **Stable Magnetic Isotopes** 

Chapter 7 **Additive Manufacturing** 

Vitaly K. Koltover

Rong Jin

**Advances and Challenges 3** 

and Eugenia Kharlampieva

Chapter 1 **Encapsulation and Surface Engineering of Pancreatic Islets:** 

Veronika Kozlovskaya, Oleksandra Zavgorodnya

**Hydrogels for Tissue Regeneration 35** 

**Part 2 Gene Medicine and Nanobiomedicine 59** 

**as a New Trend in Biomedicine 105** 

**of Their Applications in Biomedicine 125** 

**Solutions for Improved Medical Implants 147** 

Chapter 3 **RNA Interference for Tumor Therapy 61** 

**for Gene Transfection 85** 

**Part 3 Medical Device Performance 123** 

Chapter 6 **Optical Fiber Gratings in Perspective** 

Vandana Mishra and Nahar Singh

Vojislav Petrovic, Juan Vicente Haro, Jose Ramón Blasco and Luis Portolés
