Bioethics in tissue engineering in the Muslim world
The multidisciplinary field of tissue-engineering was born as a means to restore or replace diseased tissue with new living tissue that is designed or constructed to meet the needs of each individual patient. Scientific advances in biomaterials, stem cells, growth factors, and biomimetic enviro...
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Eubios Ethics Institute
2010
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/23686/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/23686/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/23686/1/Bioethics_in_Tissue_Engineering_in_the.pdf |
| Summary: | The multidisciplinary field of tissue-engineering
was born as a means to restore or replace diseased
tissue with new living tissue that is designed or
constructed to meet the needs of each individual
patient. Scientific advances in biomaterials, stem
cells, growth factors, and biomimetic environments
have created opportunities to reconstruct tissues
from combinations of engineered scaffolds, cells and
biologically active signaling molecules. Accordingly,
advanced developments in tissue-engineering have
yielded a novel set of engineered tissue implants and
treatment approaches. The demand for these tissueengineered
products may increase significantly, but,
the progress has been slow due to scientific and
technical difficulties that subject to a wide variety of
philosophical, religious and ethical challenges, and
economic viewpoints.... |
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