Despite an increase in interested donors, the shortage of Organs has worsened. For example, about 80 000 persons in the United States awaiting an organ transplant from July 2000 to July 2001, with less than a third receiving one. The answer to this problem, like other big engineering challenges, necessitates long-term solutions involving the construction or manufacture of living organs from a person's own cells. Tissue engineering has evolved over the last three decades as a multidisciplinary subject comprising scientists, engineers, and clinicians with the goal of generating biological substitutes that replicate natural tissue to replace damaged tissues or restore organ function. Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, which aim to create functioning tissue-constructs that mimic native tissue for the repair and/or replacement of damaged tissues or complete organs, have progressed quickly in recent decades. Traditional tissue engineering procedures, which use scaffolds, growth factors, and cells, have had little success in fabricating complicated 3D structures and in vivo organ regeneration, making them logistically and economically unsuitable for clinical use.
Title : Graphene, butterfly structures, and stem cells: A revolution in surgical implants
Alexander Seifalian, University of London, United Kingdom
Title : Eliminating implants infections with nanomedicine: Human results
Thomas J Webster, Interstellar Therapeutics, United States
Title : Precision in cartilage repair: Breakthroughs in biofabrication process optimization
Pedro Morouco, Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal
Title : Biodistribution and gene targeting in regenerative medicine
Nagy Habib, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Title : Innovative educational strategies in tissue engineering: Integrating research into higher education
Laurie Mans, University of Applied Biosciences Leiden, Netherlands
Title : Keratin-TMAO wound dressing promote tissue recovery in diabetic rats via activation of M2 macrophages
Marek Konop, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland