Chemical and Biological Approaches to Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering

Abstract

The loss or failure of an organ or tissue is one of the most frequent, devastating, and costly problems in human healthcare. The areas of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering apply the principles of chemistry, biology, and engineering to create new tissues and organs. Here we discuss some of the early work in this field and, in particular, review our studies combining chemistry, materials science, biology, and engineering to create new tissues and organs.

Keywords

• tissue engineering
• regenerative medicine
• polymers
• artificial pancreas
• alginate