Biomaterials, Artificial Cells, and Artificial Organs: An Editorial

[Artificial organs production].

Un área de la clínica humana de gran interés biomédico es la del trasplante de órganos pues cada vez son más los pacientes que sufren un proceso degenerativo de un órgano concreto que obliga a sustituirlo. El principal problema que se plantea en este campo terapéutico es la escasez de órganos para ser trasplantados, pues a pesar de políticas muy activas para fomentar la donación de órganos, son...

Embodied Artificial Life - Editorial

Bioengineering of Artificial Antigen Presenting Cells and Lymphoid Organs

The immune system protects the body against a wide range of infectious diseases and cancer by leveraging the efficiency of immune cells and lymphoid organs. Over the past decade, immune cell/organ therapies based on the manipulation, infusion, and implantation of autologous or allogeneic immune cells/organs into patients have been widely tested and have made great progress in clinical applicati...

Bioengineering of Artificial Lymphoid Organs

This review addresses the issue of bioengineering of artificial lymphoid organs.Progress in this field may help to better understand the nature of the structure-function relations that exist in immune organs. Artifical lymphoid organs may also be advantageous in the therapy or correction of immunodefficiencies, autoimmune diseases, and cancer. The structural organization, development, and funct...

Editorial: Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence

Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912–7 June 1954) was one of the most eminent scientists of the 20th century (Figure 1). His research was a central catalyst of the computer revolution. The concept of a Turing machine, which he developed in the 1930s, is still one of the most widely used models of computation in theoretical computer science, but this monumental contribution was only the first of m...