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Informationen zum Autor Robert A. Brown is Professor of Tissue Engineering and Director of the Centre for Tissue Regeneration Science at University College London, UK. He is also co-ordinator of the London Tissue Engineering Consortium (Tissue Bioreactor Science) and the British Tissue Engineering Network (BRITE Net), as well as current President of the Tissue and Cell Engineering Society (TCES). Professor Brown has published over 180 peer-reviewed publications and 18 patents/applications, collaborating across industry and academia to promote interdisciplinary research in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Klappentext Extreme Tissue Engineering is an engaging introduction to Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERM), allowing the reader to understand, discern and place into context the mass of scientific, multi-disciplinary data currently flooding the field. It is designed to provide interdisciplinary, ground-up explanations in a digestible, entertaining way, creating a text which is relevant to all students of TERM regardless of their route into the field.Organised into three main sections: chapters 1 to 3 introduce and explain the general problems; chapters 4 to 6 identify and refine how the main factors interact to create the problems and opportunities we know all too well; chapters 7 to 9 argue us through the ways we can use leading-edge (extreme) concepts to build our advanced solutions.Students and researchers in areas such as stem cell and developmental biology, tissue repair, implantology and surgical sciences, biomaterials sciences and nanobiomedicine, bioengineering, bio-processing and monitoring technologies - from undergraduate and masters to doctoral and post-doctoral research levels - will find Extreme Tissue Engineering a stimulating and inspiring text.Written in a fluid, entertaining style, Extreme Tissue Engineering is introductory yet challenging, richly illustrated and truly interdisciplinary. Zusammenfassung Highly Commended at the BMA Book Awards 2013 Extreme Tissue Engineering is an engaging introduction to Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERM), allowing the reader to understand, discern and place into context the mass of scientific, multi-disciplinary data currently flooding the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Extreme Tissue Engineering - a User's Guide xi 1 Which Tissue Engineering Tribe Are You From? 1 1.1 Why do we need to engineer tissues at all? 1 1.1.1 Will the real tissue engineering and regenerative medicine please stand up? 2 1.1.2 Other people's definitions 3 1.1.3 Defining our tissue engineering: fixing where we are on the scale-hierarchy 4 1.2 Bio-integration as a fundamental component of engineering tissues 7 1.2.1 Bio-scientists and physical scientists/engineers: understanding diversity in TERM 8 1.3 What are the 'tribes' of tissue engineering? 10 1.3.1 Special needs for special characteristics: why is networking essential for TERM? 13 1.4 Surprises from tissue engineering (Veselius to Vacanti) 16 1.5 So really is there any difference between tissue engineering and regenerative medicine? 20 1.5.1 Questions never really asked: repair versus regeneration? 20 1.5.2 Understanding the full spectrum: tissue replacement repair and regeneration 23 1.6 Conclusions 27 1.7 Summarizing definitions 28 Annex 1 Other people's definitions of tissue engineering 29 Annex 2 Other people's definitions of regenerative medicine 30 Further reading 30 2 Checking Out the Tissue Groupings and the Small Print 33 2.1 Checking the small print: what did we agree to engineer? 33 2.2 Identifying special tissue needs problems and opportunities 37 2.3 When is 'aiming high' just 'over the top'? 39 2.4 Opportunities risks and problems 41 2.4.1 Experime...
