18^th World Medical Nanotechnology Congress and Expo

Bio-Nanomaterials and Tissues Engineering

Scaffold-based tissue engineering approaches have been under investigation for more than 30 years now and many different techniques have been developed in order to engineer various tissues of the body. Some of them have been translated from bench to bedside, yet many are still under intensive examination. Biodegradable scaffolds applied in tissue engineering aim to temporarily substitute for the extracellular matrix and its complex biological functions during the regeneration and/or remodeling period, and are subsequently degraded and replaced by new tissue.