Tissue Engineering Fundamentals and Applications

Current clinical technologies, especially donor transplants and artificial organs, have been excellent life-saving and life-extending therapies to treat patients who need to reconstitute diseased or devastated organs or tissues as a result of an accident, trauma, and cancer, or to correct congenital structural anomalies. For long, most scientists and clinicians believed that damaged or lost tissues could only be replaced by organ transplantation or with totally artificial parts.