tissue engineering

tissue engineering
a branch of regenerative medicine that applies the methods and principles of engineering to gain an understanding of the relationship between structure and function in normal and pathological tissue and to develop substitutes for pathological, damaged, or missing tissue. See also biomaterial.

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