Biomaterial Technology For Tissue Engineering Applications

Main Category: Stem Cell Research
Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry
Article Date: 04 Mar 2009 - 9:00 PDT

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Tissue engineering is a newly emerging biomedical technology and methodology to assist and accelerate the regeneration and repairing of defective and damaged tissues based on the natural healing potentials of patients themselves.

For the new therapeutic strategy, it is indispensable to provide cells with a local environment which enhances and regulates their proliferation and differentiation for cell-based tissue regeneration.

In this review, several examples of tissue engineering applications with the cell scaffold and drug delivery system of growth factors and genes are introduced to emphasize significance of biomaterial technology in new therapeutic and research fields.

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

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