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Regenerative medicine in 2016

Important milestones on the way to clinical translation

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Regenerative medicine can be viewed as 'tissue engineering V2.0'. Discoveries and novel applications of technology advanced the field considerably in 2016, with the use of new biomaterials, stem cells and biologically active molecules.

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Figure 1: Gene therapy combined with tissue engineering produces engineered constructs with therapeutic anticytokine effects.

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Grande, D. Important milestones on the way to clinical translation. Nat Rev Rheumatol 13, 67–68 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrrheum.2016.214

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