Advances in tissue engineering: current status and future prospects

Recent developments in biomedical engineering as well as basic biology and medicine have enabled us to induce cell-based regeneration of body tissue aided by self-repairing tissues or substitute biological functions of damaged organs with cells. For successful tissue regeneration, it is important to provide cells with an environment suitable for the induction of cell-based tissue regeneration. Tissue engineering is a newly emerging biomedical technology providing the potential to create the environment for tissue regeneration with various biomaterials. This study presents an overview of recent researches and clinical data on tissue regeneration based on tissue engineering, briefly explaining the key technologies of tissue engineering.