Pioletti, Dominique P.2011-03-162011-03-162011-03-16201110.1007/s00198-011-1616-zhttps://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/65366WOS:000290544900044Development of artificial scaffold for musculo-skeletal applications, especially in load-bearing situations, requires the consideration of biomechanical aspects for its integrity and its function. However, the biomechanical loading could also be used to favour tissue formation through mechano-transduction phenomena. Design of scaffold could take advantages of this intrinsic mechanical loading.mechano-transductionbonescaffoldstressorthopedicstext::journal::journal article::research article