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  • Talk Radio interview with Penny Smith about our work on Enamel Regeneration.

    • 4 June 2018

    Alvaro Mata was interviewed by Penny Smith as part of her radio show Sunday Breakfast with Penny Smith to discuss our group’s research on guided biomineralisation for the regeneration of dental enamel. Click here to listen to the interview. (Segment 9:00-9:30) The research discussed was originally published in Nature Communicatons. Read the publication here.

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  • The Times Reports on our Mineralisation Platform for Enamel Regeneration.

    • 2 June 2018

    An news article has been published in newspaper The Times featuring our group’s research in guided biomineralisation for the regeneration of enamel (led by Dr Sherif Elsharkawy) The findings have also been reported in Nature Communications. Read the publication here. Click here to see the original article by The Times and learn more about the story.

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  • A Biomineralization Platform to Regenerate Dental Enamel

    • 25 May 2018

    We have developed a biomineralization platform that uses the ordered and disordered sections of a protein to create an organic framework capable of recruiting calcium and phosphate ions, nucleating nanocrystals, and guiding their growth hierarchically into functional materials (www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04319-0). The platform has potential to generate treatments for enamel repair and regeneration.

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