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Rising influence of synthetic biology in regenerative medicine
journal contribution
posted on 2017-08-08, 12:56 authored by Angharad Evans, Elizabeth RatcliffeElizabeth RatcliffeSynthetic biology is an emerging area of research that combines the investigative nature of biology with the constructive nature of engineering. Despite the field being in its infancy, it has already aided the development of a myriad of industrially and pharmaceutically useful compounds, devices and therapies and is now being applied within the field of regenerative medicine. By combining synthetic biology with regenerative medicine, the engineering of cells and organisms offers potential avenues for applications in tissue engineering, bioprocessing, biomaterial and scaffold development, stem cell therapies and even gene therapies. This review aims to discuss how synthetic biology has been applied within these distinct areas of regenerative medicine, the challenges it faces and any future possibilities this exciting new field may hold.
History
School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Chemical Engineering
Published in
Engineering BiologyVolume
1Issue
1Pages
24-29Citation
EVANS, A. and RATCLIFFE, E., 2017. Rising influence of synthetic biology in regenerative medicine. Engineering Biology, 1(1), pp. 24-29.Publisher
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Acceptance date
2017-04-04Publication date
2017-07-27Copyright date
2017Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by IET under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/eISSN
2398-6182Publisher version
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- en