A PhD student Xie Meihua of XJTU Bio-Engineering and Regeneration Medicine Research Center at Frontier Institute for Science and Technology made an advance in enhancing C2C12 differentiation through electroactive degradable materials. She published as the first author her latest findings Ductile electroactive biodegradable hyperbranched polylactide copolymers enhancing myoblast differentiation in the reputable bio-materials journal Biomaterials.

This electroactive hyperbranched polyactide provides a new material for cultivation of skeletal muscle tissue engineering and formation of new functional skeletal muscles. In addition, it enhances C2C12 to create well-developed skeletal muscles. Therefore, this gives a new approach to research and development of scaffold materials in skeletal muscle tissue engineering.

Biomaterials is the top journal in the international field of biomateirals, the impact factor of which is 8.5. The paper was co-supervised by Professor Ma Xiaolong and Guo Baolin; the first and correspondent author is Xi'an Jiaotong University.

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961215007085