Regenerative medicine - new approaches to augment and repair tissue lost through ageing, trauma or disease
Scientists at the University of Southampton are to study the 3D architecture of healthy human tissues down to the nanometre scale (one billionth of a meter), to develop regenerative cell techniques for musculoskeletal repair
The Southampton team, a multidisciplinary group of academics from Medicine, Engineering and Life Sciences, will use three imaging systems specially designed to create 3D images of tissues and scaffolds at three different scales to study the regenerated tissues. Read more...
Increased aging populations pose new challenges and emphasize the need for new approaches to augment and repair tissue lost through ageing, trauma or disease. Regenerative medicine promises to deliver specifiable replacement tissues.