Tissue engineering--current challenges and expanding opportunities.

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Tissue engineering can be used to restore, maintain, or enhance tissues and organs. The potential impact of this field, however, is far broader-in the future, engineered tissues could reduce the need for organ replacement, and could greatly accelerate the development of new drugs that may cure patients, eliminating the need for organ transplants altogether.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Science

Title: Science (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

ISSN (Electronic): 1095-9203

ISSN (Print): 0036-8075

Publication date (Electronic): Feb 08 2002

Volume: 295

Issue: 5557

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[1 ] Department of Chemical Engineering, Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health, and Biotechnology Process Engineering Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. griff@mit.edu

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Publisher Item ID: 295/5557/1009

DOI: 10.1126/science.1069210

PubMed ID: 11834815

SO-VID: 743097fd-1ef9-4c49-b220-35e25e38ba05

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