Includes bibliographical references.

Natural materials for cell-based therapies / Marc Thompson and Mark Van Dyke -- Synthetic polymers for cell-based therapies / Cole H. Fuerste, Komal Prem, and Guillermo A. Ameer -- Decellularized tissues for bioengineering of whole organs / Tyler Callese, Andrea Peloso, Riccardo Tamburrini, Marcia Voigt, Joao Paulo Zambon, and Giuseppe Orlando -- Cell based approaches for vascularized tissue formation / Banu Akar and Eric M. Brey -- Using biomaterials to deliver cells in vivo for neural tissue engineering applications / Laura de la Vega, Michaela Thomas, and Stephanie M. Willerth -- Cell carriers for bone and cartilage repair in vivo / Dilip Thomas, Manus Biggs, Timothy O'Brien, and Abhay Pandit -- Delivering therapeutic cells to the heart / Maribella Domenech, Jaime E. Ramirez-Vick, and Donald O. Freytes -- In vivo cell delivery : pancreatic islet transplantation / John Patrick McQuilling, Alan C. Farney, and Emmanuel C. Opara -- Cutaneous wound healing / Yixiao Dong and Geoffrey C Gurtner -- Incorporation of in vitro cell conditioning for enhanced development of tissue engineered skeletal muscle implants / David Remer, Juliana Passipieri, and George Christ -- Conditioning cells in vitro to facilitate tendons and ligament regeneration / Chelsea E. Coffey, Zachary R. Mussett, and Vassilios I. Sikavitsas -- In vitro cell conditioning for the development of engineered blood vessels / Chris A. Bashur and Mozhgan Shojaee -- Perspectives for clinical translation : how stem cells and biomaterials affect vasculogenesis and neurogenesis in preclinical and clinical models / Neel Sharma, Christina Ross, In Kap Ko, Yuan-Yuan Zhang, Shay Soker, and Tracy Criswell.