Abstract
Tissue engineering is a major focus of biotechnological research today, with the expectation that this type of technique will ultimately transform medical practice (1). The most ambitious tissue-engineering schemes assume that specific tissues and organs will be restored, in a multistage fabrication procedure. For example, cells derived from the patient may be processed to increase the total number available, seeded into a suitable three-dimensional (3D) resorbable scaffold and further processed in vitro to induce the elaboration of neo-tissue prior to implantation (2).
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Lee, D.A., Martin, I. (2004). Bioreactor Culture Techniques for Cartilage-Tissue Engineering. In: Hollander, A.P., Hatton, P.V. (eds) Biopolymer Methods in Tissue Engineering. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 238. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-428-X:159
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