Sunday, June 30, 2013

Turning human spare parts into exports

Professor György K.B. Sándor believes that tissue engineering can become a new global export item.

The goal of his research at the University of Tampere in Finland is to produce bone and cartilage using tissue engineering and to optimize the use of tissue-derived stem cells for bone defects.

With tissue engineering, it is possible to produce tailored, living human spare parts. If the method can be rolled out on a larger scale, it may become the third alternative form of treatment alongside the traditional forms, surgery and pharmacotherapy.


“We have proven with more than 20 clinically successful operations that tissue engineering works,”

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