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Tissue Engineering: Growing Replacement Human Tissue in the Lab

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In the last few chapters, we have discussed the state-of-the-art treatments for resolving missing or diseased tissues and organs. For the most part, synthetic or processed natural materials are used to design implants, etc. None of the treatments resemble or approach the sophistication of the body’s own original tissue. Over the past two decades or so, scientists and engineers have begun to create tissues and organs in the laboratory, with the aim of eventually using those constructs for treatment of disease. Although simple tissues like skin substitutes are already available, more complex tissues and organs are still under development. Nevertheless, this field of tissue engineering or regenerative medicine holds the promise of someday being capable of producing body parts which will be fully integrated into the patient’s body and alleviate the shortage of transplantable organs.

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  1. College of Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    George R. Baran

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Mohammad F. Kiani

  3. Orthopedic Surgery Bioengineering Laboratory, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Solomon Praveen Samuel

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Baran, G.R., Kiani, M.F., Samuel, S.P. (2014). Tissue Engineering: Growing Replacement Human Tissue in the Lab. In: Healthcare and Biomedical Technology in the 21st Century. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8541-4_11

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