History of Injectable Tissue Engineering
Injectable Tissue Engineering
INJECTABLE TISSUE ENGINEERING
My part of the assignment is to provide a detailed history of Injectable Tissue Engineering. I must also provide details how Injectable Tissue Engineering affects the environment.
Ttissue engineering has advanced dramatically in the last 10 years, offering the potential for regenerating almost every tissue and organ of the human body. Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine remain a flourishing area of research with many new potential treatments for many disease and amputations. The advances involve researchers in a multitude of disciplines, including cell biology, biomaterials science, and Injectable Tissue Engineering of cell material interactions. Tissue engineering aims to restore, maintain, or improve tissue functions that are defective or have been lost by different pathological conditions by reconstructing tissues. Injectable Tissue Engineering is the process of using specific tissue or organs to repair, replace or regenerate specific diseased tissue or organs without the need for surgery. Tissue engineering frequently involves stem cells. Implanting stem cells in the appropriate location can generate cells such as bone, tendons and cartilage. If the patient's own cells cannot be used cells from another human donor can be used. Tissue engineering will have a significant impact in science and medicine in the future.
History and Timeline
There have been references to Tissue Engineering long before the term even existed. Many point to the Renaissance painting "The Healing of Justinian by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian" as the first example of Tissue Engineering in the human mind. In 1438, Angelico Fra depicted two saints healing a wounded soldier by replacing his leg with what appears to be a Homograft limb, which means that the limb is grown outside using the patient's own cells. This is not unlike the present day organ growing ideas. However, the oldest sign of something that
INJECTABLE TISSUE ENGINEERING
My part of the assignment is to provide a detailed history of Injectable Tissue Engineering. I must also provide details how Injectable Tissue Engineering affects the environment.
Ttissue engineering has advanced dramatically in the last 10 years, offering the potential for regenerating almost every tissue and organ of the human body. Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine remain a flourishing area of research with many new potential treatments for many disease and amputations. The advances involve researchers in a multitude of disciplines, including cell biology, biomaterials science, and Injectable Tissue Engineering of cell material interactions. Tissue engineering aims to restore, maintain, or improve tissue functions that are defective or have been lost by different pathological conditions by reconstructing tissues. Injectable Tissue Engineering is the process of using specific tissue or organs to repair, replace or regenerate specific diseased tissue or organs without the need for surgery. Tissue engineering frequently involves stem cells. Implanting stem cells in the appropriate location can generate cells such as bone, tendons and cartilage. If the patient's own cells cannot be used cells from another human donor can be used. Tissue engineering will have a significant impact in science and medicine in the future.
History and Timeline
There have been references to Tissue Engineering long before the term even existed. Many point to the Renaissance painting "The Healing of Justinian by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian" as the first example of Tissue Engineering in the human mind. In 1438, Angelico Fra depicted two saints healing a wounded soldier by replacing his leg with what appears to be a Homograft limb, which means that the limb is grown outside using the patient's own cells. This is not unlike the present day organ growing ideas. However, the oldest sign of something that
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