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Artificial Tissue: As Good as the Real Thing?
From: Columbia University
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Van Mow |
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION |
 Scientists can grow artificial tissue in a laboratory, whether it is artificial skin for burn patients or artificial blood vessels for patients who have coronary artery disease or artificial cartilage for any of the 40 million people in the US alone who suffer from osteoarthritis. Such "tissue engineering" is done by extracting tissue cells and growing them in a gel, which can then be implanted. The goal of the new field of functional tissue engineering is to determine long-term survivability of artificial tissue in a physical body. Van C. Mow, chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, addresses the history and application of tissue engineering and functional tissue engineering, and illustrates in this video interview how a joint-testing machine built at Columbia University functions. |
Van C. Mow discusses the possibility of artificial skin tissue or blood vessels grown in a laboratory and surviving in a human body.
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