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Soft, flexible hydrogels have enabled significant advancements in engineering biological tissue by mimicking the natural scaffolding that provides structure and support to cells.

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Nature Reviews Materials, Published online: 26 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41578-026-00972-wHydrogels offer adaptable matrices for bone regeneration, yet clinical translation remains limited by application-specific failures in dynamic skeletal environments. This Review organizes these failures into mechanical, spatiotemporal and immune risks and outlines translational benchmarks and risk-controlled design principles.

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A new review maps how phytochemical-loaded hydrogel systems, enhanced by artificial intelligence and 3D printing, are being engineered to overcome the barriers that have kept plant-based wound

The semiconducting behaviour in hydrogels enables advanced electronic applications for biosystems. This Review provides key principles of the design, fabrication, characterizations and benchmarking fo...

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