Extreme Tissue Engineering: Concepts and Strategies for Tissue Fabrication

<p><i>Highly Commended at the BMA Book Awards 2013</i></p> <p><i>Extreme Tissue Engineering</i> is an engaging introduction to Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERM), allowing the reader to understand, discern and place into context the mass of scientific, multi-disciplinary data currently flooding the field.  It is designed to provide interdisciplinary, ground-up explanations in a digestible, entertaining way, creating a text which is relevant to all students of TERM regardless of their route into the field.</p> <p>Organised into three main sections: chapters 1 to 3 introduce and explain the general problems;  chapters 4 to 6 identify and refine how the main factors interact to create the problems and opportunities we know all too well; chapters 7 to 9 argue us through the ways we can use leading-edge (extreme) concepts to build our advanced solutions.</p> <p>Students and researchers in areas such as stem cell and developmental biology, tissue repair, implantology and surgical sciences, biomaterials sciences and nanobiomedicine, bioengineering, bio-processing and monitoring technologies – from undergraduate and masters to doctoral and post-doctoral research levels – will find <i>Extreme Tissue Engineering</i> a stimulating and inspiring text.</p> <p>Written in a fluid, entertaining style, <i>Extreme Tissue Engineering</i> is introductory yet challenging, richly illustrated and truly interdisciplinary.</p>