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Tissue engineering

Tissue engineering is the process by which organs and tissues are grown in the laboratory for therapeutic use. Stem cell researcher Hilary Anderson is studying materials that stimulate stem cell growth and explains how tissue engineering can revolutionise complex surgery

Figure 1 The cell uses integrins to adhere to the ECM proteins. The integrins recruit internal adhesion proteins and actin (the cell skeleton) to send a message to the nucleus. For stem cells, this message could be to differentiate

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