Biomedical Engineering Challenges Of The Next Century
Date: 18.2.2008
Much of the work in MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer's prolific lab sounds like something straight from the pages of science fiction, but its products are already saving lives around the world in a variety of ways.
One of Langer's specialties is growing the vital tissues of the human body--including skin, blood vessels, bone and parts of organs such as the liver and intestines--in a laboratory dish instead of in the body. For example, based on Langer's work scientists can grow patches of skin that can be used as grafts for burn victims.
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