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Biomaterials Group |
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| The Biomaterials Group provides basic materials science, engineering, test methods, and standards to sectors of the health care industry for the development of new or improved materials and delivery systems with a strong emphasis on tissue engineering and related technologies. Whereas current medical implants are engineered to be biologically inert, the goal of tissue engineering is to utilize our understanding of tissue repair processes to design advanced medical devices that promote regeneration | |
| There are currently tissue engineered medical products under development for virtually every organ in the body. FDA-approved skin substitutes have been available for the last 10 years, and great progress is being made in regenerative cartilage, muscle, bone, and dental therapies. One cornerstone of these therapies is biomaterials that serve as temporary replacements for missing or damaged tissue but are also designed to interact with native repair processes in order to facilitate the restoration of function. The successful development and regulatory approval of such biomaterials requires advanced measurement methods and reference materials, and the Biomaterials Group is currently working in three main areas toward providing such a metrology system: | |
| Combinatorial methods for screening cellular responses to biomaterials | |
| New techniques for characterizing the performance of tissue engineering scaffolds | |
| Materials and methodologies for dental repair | |
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