Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Tissue Engineering In the World of Flora

With increasing success of animal tissue engineering, scientists are trying the techniques on plants. A very recent study reveals that Use of 3D scaffolds have helped in studying plant development.  Nano-fiber scaffolds were expensive some days back. But with technique called shear spinning it has been rendered cost effective and hence can be used to experiment with plants. Reports have shown that by growing in the nano-fibres, they adopt dramatic change in their behavior.  3-D plant tissue engineering promises to provide a new array of techniques for studying plant growth and development in vitro. The agricultural sector will also be benefitted as synthetic biology can be researched upon.

Related association in USA: Society For Biomaterials, Canadian Biomaterials Society, The International Society of Biomedical Polymers and Polymeric Biomaterials (ISBPPB), World Biomaterials Congress, The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society.