How to Grow New Organs

Pioneers in building living tissue report important advances over the past decade

By Ali Khademhosseini, Joseph P. Vacanti and Robert Langer   

the original website: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-grow-new-organs

Key Concepts

• Efforts to build living tissue replacements have progressed over the past decade, and some simple engineered tissues are already used in humans.
• Advances have come from a greater understanding of cell behavior and sophisticated new building materials.
• More tissue-engineered products are close to commercial readiness but must undergo the complex regulatory scrutiny given to living materials.

traveller: 

if it is  a dream,then we should work up together to realize the dream,biomedical engineer, you still have a chance to change the world 

Bone Marrow transplant,future for AIDS cure?

Bone marrow transplant muffles HIV

from nature.com

Abstract

An HIV-positive subject who received a bone marrow transplant for leukemia showed no evidence of the virus in his bloodstream after 20 months of follow-up, according to a report by Gero H|[uuml]|tter et al.. In a rare and lucky match-up, his donor was not only compatible but also homozygous for mutations in the HIV receptor CCR5 that result in resistance to HIV infection.

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traveller : THiKIng out of box ..

If Bone Marrow transplant can stop temporarily for cancer, can we use stem cell to cure AIDS ?i hope as a biomedical engineer in the future ,we can work for it.AIDS ,we swear to overcome you in the 21st century .

for our future ,also for the world's future..