Tissue engineering is tissue cultivation and summarises the artificial production of biological tissue. In this process, cells are cultivated in a directed manner, e.g. to replace or regenerate diseased tissue in patients. Usually, cells are taken from the organism of a donor and multiplied in vitro in the laboratory. Depending on the type of cell, these can be cultivated two-dimensionally as cell lawns or three-dimensionally by means of specific cell scaffolds. In most cases, already differentiated cells from the organism are multiplied in vitro. A new approach is the use of adult or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS).
Centre for Soft Nanoscience, WWU Münster
Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry, WWU Münster
Max Planck Institute Münster
Institute for Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, WWU Münster
Max Planck Institute Münster