Monday, October 11, 2010

Tissue Engineering


This website above has information containing the future plans that scientists and researchers plan. It involves tissue engineering that does not recquire the controversial use of embryonic stem cells. This kind of tissue engineering is all natural.
Tissue engineering. What is it? Engineers, reseachers, and scientists are working together to creat a new kind of future. Tissue engineering is imitating life. These scientists first goal is to get cells to proliferate. By doing this they have to look at many specific things, for example, they look at the environment in which the cell grows and the physical environment of the cell as well. One experiment they have done included a hairless mouse in which the scientists grew an ear on top of it.
Some other experiments that have been tried is a bioreactor cultivating cartliage, heart valves, and blood vessels, and a bioreactor that keeps the cells in perpetual free fall.
With this kind of tissue engineering, people that need a new heart, better kidneys, or some other kind of organ will no longer have to wait. Tissue engineering will revolutionize transplant medicine.