3D Biofabrication Strategies for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

3D biofabrication strategies for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Over the past several decades, there has been an ever-increasing demand for organ transplants. However, there is a severe shortage of donor organs, and as a result of the increasing demand, the gap between supply and demand continues to widen. A potential solution to this problem is to grow or fabricate organs using biomaterial scaffolds and a person's own cells. Although the realization of thi...

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine strategies in meniscus lesions.

PURPOSE The aim of this systematic review was to address tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (TERM) strategies applied to the meniscus, specifically (1) clinical applications, indications, results, and pitfalls and (2) the main trends in research assessed by evaluation of preclinical (in vivo) studies. METHODS Three independent reviewers performed a search on PubMed, from 2006 to Mar...

Progress in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

F ascination with the ability to regenerate tissues and organs has existed since the earliest observations of Prometheus, Thevenot, and Tremblay. However, what might be called the modern era of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine began only a quarter century ago. The initial focus of a newly defined scientific discipline referred to as “tissue engineering” involved the ex vivo creation...

Liposomes in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Liposomes are vesicular structures made of lipids that are formed in aqueous solutions. Structurally, they resemble the lipid membrane of living cells. Therefore, they have been widely investigated, since the 1960s, as models to study the cell membrane, and as carriers for protection and/or delivery of bioactive agents. They have been used in different areas of research including vaccines, imag...

Dielectrophoretic Microweaving: Biofabrication of Aligned Bacterial Nanocellulose for Regenerative Medicine