The wisdom of the body: future techniques and approaches to morphogenetic fields in regenerative medicine, developmental biology and cancer.

667 ISSN 1746-0751 10.2217/RME.11.69 © 2011 Future Medicine Ltd Regen. Med. (2011) 6(6), 667–673 “The restoration of shape is a central goal of regenerative medicine – rebuilding a complex structure such as a hand or eye requires more than stem cells driven towards individual tissues – the placement of all components in the right arrangement is crucial and cannot be micromanaged by direct bioengineering.”