Tissue engineering--current challenges and expanding opportunities.
Tissue engineering can be used to restore, maintain, or enhance tissues and organs. The potential impact of this field, however, is far broader-in the future, engineered tissues could reduce the need for organ replacement, and could greatly accelerate the development of new drugs that may cure patients, eliminating the need for organ transplants altogether.
Griffith
Linda G
LG
Department of Chemical Engineering, Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health, and Biotechnology Process Engineering Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. griff@mit.edu
Naughton
Gail
G
D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D019149:Bioreactors; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000502:physiology; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D046508:Culture Techniques; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D018919:Neovascularization, Physiologic; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods
D001672:Biocompatible Materials