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Bioartificial Body Parts May Save Your Life! |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Robert G. Van Buskirk |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,665 Words, 17,221 Characters |
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Artificial livers, synthetic organs, and suspended animation are all themes that have been used in science fiction movies in the past. But now a new discipline called tissue engineering is bringing these terms into routine use. Tissue engineering is one of the youngest scientific disciplines, blending the talents of cell and molecular biologists, chemists, physicians, and biotechnology industries.
Tissue engineering can be defined as the artificial synthesis of human tissues, organs, or organlike models from individual living cells. The discipline grew out of basic experiments that attempted to grow single animal cells outside the body, in artificial conditions. This field now promises to extend the lives of people needing organ transplants, repair joints that were once deemed biologica...
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...the 400,000 patients in the United States with renal failure do not have to seek dialysis several times a week.
While no one can guarantee the success of tissue engineering in the future, the fact that as a formal discipline it is only a few years old and is already saving both human and animal lives makes it one of the most promising and exciting technological revolutions of this century.
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