Tissue engineering: confronting the transplantation crisis.

There appears to be relatively wide agreement that in this 21stcentury advances in biology will define scientific progress. What is not often said, however, is that, not only will advances in biology define scientific progress, it also will revolutionize how we engineer products.

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