title: Engineering a concept: the creation of tissue engineering.
abstract: Tissue engineering is a fashionable phrase and a new concept. This article analyses what is meant by this term and discusses some of the products that may emerge from the translation of this concept into clinical reality.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Engineering Department, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, UK. dfw.ce@liverpool.ac.uk
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D001187:Artificial Organs / Q000639:trends*; D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D046508:Culture Techniques; D006801:Humans; D016378:Tissue Transplantation / Q000639:trends*