Ulrich Meyer · Thomas Meyer
Jörg Handschel · Hans Peter Wiesmann
(Eds.)

2009

The man-made creation of tissues, organs, or even larger organisms was for a long time a matter of myth and dream throughout the history of medicine. It now comes into clinical reality. Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are the terms that are nowadays used to describe the approach to generate complex tissues and organs from simpler pieces.