The Benefits of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
With the increasing number of patients enlisted in the transplant list, the supply of healthy organs is quite limited. This is demonstrated in the graph below: Image credits: https://biolife4d.com/ripple-effects-transplant-waiting-lists/ The graph signifies that the number of patients enlisted on the transplant waitlist far surpasses the donors. This is alarming as there are so many patients whose life depends upon a new and healthy organ but organs are not available to them. However, a new and growing branch of science which is known as tissue engineering is developing to propose a solution to this problem. With the help of various techniques implemented in tissue engineering, patients can receive temporary grafts until a healthy organ is available to them. The various techniques and material implemented in tissue engineering to synthesize new grafts include: · Stem cells or reg