Perhaps the field's biggest revolution was the introduction of stem cells, which ushered in the era of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
In the era of tissue engineering, the choice of biomimetic materials and natural biological components should be based on their specific role on cardiac cell biology.
In the era of tissue engineering, there is an ongoing interest in the development of biomimetic materials that would be able to elicit specific cellular responses and direct tissue formation based on either intrinsic tissue regeneration capacity (provided by resident stem cells) or scaffold-incorporated or scaffold-seeded stem cells [ 3].
As cardiac surgery enters its 4th Era, the era of bioengineering, tissue engineering and biotechnology, surgical solutions will embrace living tissue transplants, hybrid structures (inert + living) and biological implants that are really endogenous protein factories.
As the era of free tissue transfer for head and neck reconstruction matures, more patients are requiring second resections and reconstructions.
In our era of paper tissues, people may not remember that this was a recognizable gesture symbolic of bourgeois fastidiousness, the sartorial equivalent of doilies on the furniture.
Moreover, the strategy to use the 3D bioprinting technique holds the potential to consistently manufacture commercializable scaffolds, tailored for diverse clinical applications with physicochemical property-dependent biodegradation rates, and usher in a new era of effective hard tissue fabrication.
The kit was made during an era when surgeons prioritized careful preservation of tissue, rather than quick removal.
Ronert, M. A., Hofheinz, H., Manassa, E., Asgarouladi, H. & Olbrisch, R. R. The beginning of a new era in tissue expansion: self-filling osmotic tissue expander 4-year clinical expander 4-year
Mr President, the regulation of tissue engineering products is both a necessity and an inevitability in the present era of rapid biotechnological advances.
Because stem cells can grow into any type of tissue in the body, scientists regard them as the building blocks of a new era of regenerative medicine, in which doctors will heal patients using their own tissues.
