Tissue engineering -- Growing new organs, and more: Research could lead to better ways to heal injuries and develop new drugs
Friday, December 14, 2012 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
In the 1970s and 1980s, tissue engineers began working on growing replacement organs for transplantation into patients. While scientists are still targeting that goal, much of the tissue engineering research at MIT is also focused on creating tissue that can be used in the lab to model human disease and test potential new drugs.