1. BIOENGINEERING BODY PARTS AND ORGANS FOR TRANSPLANT
LG: LIFE’S GOOD

2. BIOENGINEERING
Refers to the application of the concepts and methods from the biological, physical, chemical, mathematical and computer sciences combined with the synthetic and analytic methodologies of engineering to open up the possibility of creating new human tissues, organs and blood.

3. SIGNIFICANCE
The human body is not perfect. Some are created with inherent faults and others break down before their time. Because of the numerous modern medical breakthroughs discovered, we now have the potential to change these faults and make good out of the problems through bioengineering or biomedical engineering.

4. BIOENGINEERED BODY PARTS AND ORGANS
SKIN
Human skin cells are cultivated in the lab and then embedded in a collagen scaffold.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering & Biotechnology manufactures 5,000 skin sheets in a month.
BENEFICIAL IN TREATING: Extensive wounding or trauma, burns, areas of extensive skin loss due to infections and skin cancers

5. BIOENGINEERED BODY PARTS AND ORGANS
EAR
A team from Princeton University used 3D printing technology to make a functional ear from calf cells and electronic materials
BLADDER
Surgeon Anthony Atala and his team bioengineered bladders which succeeded in clinical trials and were constructed from patients’ cells.
BENEFICIAL FOR: Children suffering from spina bifida and those who are at risk of kidney failure

6. BIOENGINEERED BODY PARTS AND ORGANS
BLOOD VESSELS
Made from the patient’s own cells
BETTER TREATMENTS FOR: Cardiovascular diseases, Kidney disease and diabetes
HEART
Artificial heart devices have been implanted since 1980
Recently, scientists have made many advances in adding more biological material into artificial heart devices
Helpful for patients with kidney, lung or liver disease, insulin-dependent diabetes, vascular disease, high pulmonary vascular resistance, recent thromboembolism and substance abuse

7. BIOENGINEERED BODY PARTS AND ORGANS
LIVER
A team from the Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine reprogrammed human adult skin cells, added other cell types and got them to grow into early-stage liver buds
BENEFICIAL FOR: Patients with any acute or chronic condition resulting in irreversible liver dysfunction

8. BIOENGINEERED BODY PARTS AND ORGANS
KIDNEY
Most patients with kidney failure rely on dialysis while only a fraction get transplants
Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco are on a mission to create a sophisticated artificial kidney device made with human kidney cells, silicon nanofilters and powered by blood pressure

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