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Papers

(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Porous microneedles: Transdermal salt bridge for biomedical device engineering	52
Bioresorbable vascular metallic scaffolds: Current status and research trends	49
AAV-based CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing: Challenges and engineering opportunities	48
Toward the use of muscle reinnveration for chronic bidirectional control of prostheses to improve functional outcomes of end users	46
Using biophysical cues and biomaterials to improve genetic models	44
Brainy biomaterials: Latest advances in smart biomaterials to develop the next generation of neural interfaces	40
From “High” to “How Many”: How Quantifying Receptor Abundance Links Genotype, Environment, and Therapeutic Response	39
Smart orthopedic biomaterials and implants	35
The prospect of electroceutical intervention and its implementation toward intractable neuromuscular diseases	33
Defining omics-based biomarker signatures of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD): In vitro studies	33
Contents	32
Emerging trends of discrete Poly(ethylene glycol) in biomedical applications	29
Design of biocompatible and self-antibacterial titanium surfaces for biomedical applications	28
Mining microbial organisms to discover and characterize novel CRISPR-Cas systems	27
Outlook in tissue-engineered magnetic systems and biomagnetic control	26
AI models for protein design are driving antibody engineering	22
Biophysical determinants of nuclear shape and mechanics and their implications for genome integrity	21
Editorial overview: Scaffold-based and scaffold-free approaches for mechanobiology, in vitro disease modeling and treatment	20
Electrospun biomedical nanofibers and their future as intelligent biomaterials	20
Aging and the extracellular matrix: A tumor-permissive microenvironment driving cancer progression	20
Modular and handheld Raman systems for SERS-based point-of-care diagnostics	17
Intelligent biomaterials for cardiovascular applications	17
Cellular and molecular aspects of mechanobiology of the extracellular matrix	17
3M engineering approaches to combat high-shear thrombosis: Integrating modeling, microfluidics, and mechanobiology	16
Size principles governing selective neuromodulation and recruitment order of nerve fibers	16

Contents	16
Current trends and definitions in high-performance antimicrobial strategies	16
Gut-on-chip and liver-on-chip platforms for pathophysiological modeling	15
Rigid and soft microelectrodes for electrophysiology measurement	15
Generalizable and explainable deep learning for medical image computing: An overview	15
Contents	15
Bioelectronic therapies for chronic pain	15
Thermogelling materials and their important role in biomedical engineering applications	15
Recent advances in quantifying the mechanobiology of cardiac development via computational modeling	14
Remote magnetic actuation of cell signalling for tissue engineering	14
Smart plasmonic hydrogels based on gold and silver nanoparticles for biosensing application	14
Antibacterial and antiviral high-performance nanosystems to mitigate new SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern	14
Eye tracking in cardiology	14
Contents	14
AI-powered wearable sensors for health monitoring and clinical decision making	13
Nano-biomaterials: Emerging tools in biomedical innovation and therapy	12
Editorial overview: Current perspectives in bioelectronic medicine: Mechanisms, technologies, and clinical frontiers	12
Recent advancements in in vitro models of traumatic brain injury	12
A new function for nuclear lamins: Providing surface tension to the nuclear drop	12
Imaging the microscale mechanical properties of cancer using optical coherence elastography	12
Sustainable electrospun materials with enhanced blood compatibility for wound healing applications—A mini review	11
Surface modified NiTi smart biomaterials: Surface engineering and biological compatibility	11
Neuromodulation for the treatment of sexual dysfunction: An opportunity for the field	11
Beyond static models: Mechanically dynamic matrices reveal new insights into cancer and fibrosis progression	10
What lies beyond—Insights into elastic microscaffolds with metamaterial properties for cell studies	10
Leveraging user preference in the design and evaluation of lower-limb exoskeletons and prostheses	10
Microfluidic platforms for organ-on-a-chip models: Creating dynamic microenvironments for organoid and multi-organ systems	10
Editorial Board	9
Commercial autologous cell therapy: The value of real-time patient and therapy data	9
Transdermal Nanomedicine: Emerging Horizons, Unresolved Challenges, and the Path Forward	9
Advances in electrospinning of aligned nanofiber scaffolds used for wound dressings	9
Nanomechanics at the extracellular matrix-focal adhesion interface	9
Genetically-encoded degraders as versatile modulators of intracellular therapeutic targets	9
Gelatin-based scaffolds: An intuitive support structure for regenerative therapy	9
Advances in strategies for liver regeneration and replacement	9
Perspectives on synthetic protein circuits in mammalian cells	8
Fueling next-generation genome editing with DNA repair	8
Moving to a new dimension: 3D kidney cultures for kidney regeneration	8
Editorial Board	8
The unperturbed picture: Label-free real-time optical monitoring of cells and extracellular vesicles for therapy	8
The need for tissue-engineered models to facilitate the study of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells in traumatic brain injury and repair	8
The role of immune cells in therapeutic angiogenesis: Concepts in tissue engineering	8
Tissue engineering for cervical function in pregnancy	8
Editorial Board	8
Long sequence insertion via CRISPR/Cas gene-editing with transposase, recombinase, and integrase	7
Engineering the NET-biomaterial interface to treat disease	7
The myokinetic interface: Implanting permanent magnets to restore the sensory-motor control loop in amputees	7
Contemporary standpoint and future of 3D bioprinting in tissue/organs printing	7
Tissue density in the progression of breast cancer: Bedside to bench and back again	7
Diversity in a dish: Leveraging organoids to reflect genetic ancestry and sex differences in health and disease	7

Editorial Board	6
Non-invasive brain imaging to advance the understanding of human balance	6
Antimicrobial polymeric composites for high-touch surfaces in healthcare applications	6
Recent advancements and applications of physics-informed machine learning in biomedical research	6
Contents	6
Finite element modeling of traumatic brain injury: Areas of future interest	6
Current opinion: Underreported cell populations in the aortic valve influence tissue development and homeostasis	6
Intelligent and smart biomaterials for sustainable 3D printing applications	6
Editorial Board	6
Rehabilitation of motor and sensory function using spinal cord stimulation: Recent advances	5
Contents	5
Trans-epithelial/endothelial electrical resistance (TEER): Current state of integrated TEER measurements in organ-on-a-chip devices	5
Editorial overview: Low-cost and portable systems for biomedical imaging and sensing	5
An update on repeated blast traumatic brain injury	5
Achieving tendon enthesis regeneration across length scales	5
Intelligent biomaterials for micro and nanoscale 3D printing	5
Wearable sensing for understanding and influencing human movement in ecological contexts	5
Mechanome-guided strategies in regenerative rehabilitation	5
Tuning the matrix: Recent advances in mechanobiology unveiled through polyacrylamide hydrogels	5
Regeneration of interfaces bridging disparate tissues and systems of the human body	4
Microfluidic platforms based on SERS imaging and their point-of-care applications	4
Enhancing resilience against adversarial attacks in medical imaging using advanced feature transformation training	4
Editorial Board	4
Anatomics: Co-engineering body and machine in pursuit of synergistic bionic performance	4
Micro-haemodynamics at the maternal–fetal interface: Experimental, theoretical and clinical perspectives	4
Intelligent polymeric biomaterials surface driven by plasma processing	4
Mechanism to translation: Neural prostheses for the lower urinary tract	4
Biomedical imaging: Imaging for regenerative medicine and biomanufacturing	4
Contents	4
Contents	4
Spatiotemporally-patterned biomaterials for organoid culture	4
“Sustainable open-source medical devices manufactured with green biomaterials and accessible resources”	4
Interface tissues of the mesoderm: Periosteum, ligament, interosseous membrane, & myofascial tissues, an inspiration for next generation medical textiles	4
Advancements in in vitro models of traumatic brain injury	4
To cut or not to cut: Next-generation genome editors for precision genome engineering	4
Contents	3
Editorial overview: Biomedical engineering and women's health: Breaking new ground in gender- and sex-specific research	3
Recent advances in hydrogel-based platforms for periodontal tissue regeneration	3
Contents	3
Hippocampus-guided engineering of memory prosthesis	3
Learning about liver regeneration from liver-on-a-chip	3
Editorial Board	3
Recent mitigation strategies in engineered healthcare materials towards antimicrobial applications	3
Organoid bioprinting to pattern the matrix microenvironment	3
Photonic crystal colorimetric sensing in heart-on-a-chip systems	3
Quantitative 4D imaging of biomechanical regulation of ventricular growth and maturation	3
Biosensors in biomedical research: Bridging cell and tissue engineering and real-time monitoring	3
Generative design of therapeutics that bind and modulate protein states	3
Strategies towards kidney tissue biofabrication	3
Vascularization of organoid microenvironments: Perfusable networks for organoid growth and maturation	3
Single-use biosensors for biomanufacturing: Perspective on the state-of-the-art	3
Cellular mechanoactivation of antigen-presenting cells and T cells for cancer immunotherapy	3
Towards ultrasound imaging-based closed-loop peripheral nerve stimulation for tremor suppression	2
Merging human physiology and interactive machines to augment sensorimotor function	2
Contents	2
Sustainable medical materials printed by melt electrowriting: A mini-review	2
Recent advances in niosome-based transdermal drug delivery systems	2
Nature-inspired sustainable medical materials	2
Application of metal additive manufacturing in oral dentistry	2
Biomechanics of cardiac development in zebrafish model	2
Producing human livers from human stem cells via blastocyst complementation	2
Bioengineering approaches to improve gynecological cancer outcomes	2
Advancing cell therapies with artificial intelligence and synthetic biology	2
Optical imaging technologies for in vivo cancer detection in low-resource settings	2
A review of haptic feedback through peripheral nerve stimulation for upper extremity prosthetics	2
Futures of BME: Sustainable medical materials 2023	2
Where the wild molecules are: Engineering the spatial distribution of signaling molecules	2
Mechanosensing pathways in the progression of pulmonary fibrosis	2
A critical analysis of the recent developments in multi-stimuli responsive smart hydrogels for cancer treatment	2
Protein engineering technologies for development of next-generation genome editors	2
Pluripotent stem cell-based cell therapies: Current applications and future prospects	2
Microscopy methods to visualize nuclear organization in biomechanical studies	2
3D fabrication of artificial cell microenvironments for mechanobiology	2
Science-based regulatory considerations for regenerative medicine cellular products	2
Label-free optical imaging of cell function and collagen structure for cell-based therapies	2
Regenerative rehabilitation measures to restore tissue function after arsenic exposure	2
Exploiting protein domain modularity to enable synthetic control of engineered cells	2
Editorial overview: The next-generation of genome editing: The future is now	2
Intracellular antibodies and biodegraders: Beyond small molecules and back again	2