Startsida
Plastic surgery and tissue engineering
Tissue engineering is the art of building up new tissue with the body’s own cells as a starting point. The technique was developed quickly and is used today to replace, for example, bone, cartilage, and vessels. Researchers at LiU are leaders in such fields as growing skin in burn cases and urethral tissue to treat boys with hypospadia, a birth defect. Recently it has been shown that connective tissue cells from the skin can be used to create many other types of cells. The group is also studying wound healing on live human skin in a laboratory environment.
Scientists
Kratz Gunnar
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