tissue engineering

Andrew Greene, Ph.D., describes the research foci of the Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI.

The general objective of the LifeValve project is to develop a new therapeutic strategy to treat heart valve disease. In particular, the development of a tissue engineered living heart valve, with the capacity of growth in accordance with the growths of children, which can be implanted without an operation by minimally invasive catheter technology will be addressed. The rationale for first focussing on paediatric applications is twofold: First, a novel, tissue engineered living heart valve...

Supplement information of Nature Methods 2008, 5, 735. Neuronal networks is cultured by layer-by-layer assembly of neuron-attached colloids. The resulting neuronal network is able to react to light stimuli.