Integrally asymmetrical polyolefin membrane

Abstract

Tissue engineering is a top scientific branch, which is often named as “regenerative medicine” mistakenly, which uses the combination of engineering principles and the knowledge of cell biology and materials sciences to improve or replace the functions of tissues and organs. This field provides a variety of options from repairing the damaged tissues through building new organs for transplant surgeries. Apart from the regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, additional to the use of stem cell culturing and differentiation techniques, is taking the advantage of using biodegradable and biosafe materials such as polyesters and collagen to form versatile structures called “scaffolds.” Recently, by the developments of stem cell technology, it became possible to generate a tissue or an organ from the patient himself/herself without using these materials that pose a great opportunity to tackle the problems we face today, like the cancellation of the transplant. In the future, by means of improvements in tissue engineering industry, it is foreseen to establish their organ banks from the healthy citizens and to test the effects of drugs on tissues and multiorgan systems, which end up with the personalized medicine.