Tissue+Engineering+Examples

Sam Sweeney and Zack Woods
 * ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS!**

Scientists are working to perfect an artificial pancreas using tissue engineering. This will help people with diabetes to automatically control their blood glucose levels. The artificial pancreas will hopefully improve the insulin replacement therapy in the pancreas, and to recreate the normal stimulation of the liver by the pancreas. Though this has not been perfected yet, there are many approaches under consideration on how they will make this artificial pancreas both safe and beneficial.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110624182303.htm

Alex Whitmer, Jon Soto, Tuan Thai Artificial Liver Artificial liver is consider as a tissue engineer's nightmare. The liver takes care of more than 200 jobs in the body, it helps maintain optimal blood sugar levels, synthesise bile acids which take care of cholesterol, secretes proteins crucial for blood clotting and many more. Scientists are hitting a wall when they try to create something to mimic the natural functions of the human liver.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110725/jsp/knowhow/story_14283641.jsp

ARTIFICIAL BONE MARROW

This replacement actually has two of the functions of real bone marrow. It can replicate blood stem cells and produce B cells. This discovery will allow scientists to give patients in need of bone marrow a proper match. So far, mice are the only ones who have been tested but their results were promising. The mice grew human immune cells and other blood vessels. It looks good for the future.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081222221558.htm

Artificial Heart

The artificial heart still has not been perfected. There are so many complicated parts to the heart that there are many problems that can go wrong. The first artificial heart had kept the first user alive for 112 days.

Artificial Skin Brooke and Liz

Scientists are researching ways to create artificial skin in order to cover burns and serious skin diseases. They have been trying to create this option because previously they had to take skin from other parts of the body, which created problems in relation to not having enough skin, etc. to use. Scientists have tested a "collagen scaffold" which is the protein underneath the skin, as well as a "autologous spray on skin". Their goal is to create a two layer skin with no blood vessels and further test how it reacts with creams, etc.

Lauren Moyer and Brandon Sawyer Scientist are finding new ways to create artificial bladders whether they make them from cells or from different organs in the body. They are trying to create this alternative options because in the past they would just cut a hole out of the bladder and the waste would be collected in a bag which was pretty inconvenient for the patient. Now with this new technology being created and used patients with life-threatening diseases can get a completely new organ. The goal is to have the bladder function exatly as the original did so the patients life style doesn't change and they have a healthy new, functioning organ.
 * Artificial Bladder**

sedev.fsm.northwestern.edu/chenglab/images/WJU%20Nano.pdf ( this is a pdf not a website)

Scientists have working on research involving the regeneration of eyesight using stem cells from hair follicles. This could ultimately benefit those who have suffered from Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency (LSCD), a disease where the cornea of the eye becomes cloudy and rough, causing pain and eventually leading to blindness. Their research proved that with the right environment, a less specialized cell could become more specialized, and function for something other than their original purpose.
 * Regenerating Eyesight**

More about the study of eyesight regeneration.

Katie Crum & Abbie Keller

ARTIFICIAL UTERUS (WOMB)! Cailyn Caskey and Aisha Jones

Artificial wombs are self contained synthetic structures that replicate a real woman's uterus. The demand for the artificial uterus is planned to be huge due to the fact that offers a safer, healthier, more affordable and liberating way of having a child. Such technology, an artificial womb will present a safer option because it would be of a mechanical design in common with life-support systems that are less susceptible than human bodies, including healthy mothers. Women with the artificial womb and who are expecting will have the flexibility to work longer if they want to and they will more liberated, able to walk, live comfortably, and also free of any possible concern that they might not recognise their own bodies, during and after pregnancy.

http://www.artificialwomb.net/