Tissue regeneration based on tissue engineering technology

ABSTRACT Recent development of biomedical engineering as well as basic biology and medicine has enabled us to induce cell‐based regeneration of body tissue to self‐repair defective tissue or substitute biological functions of damaged organs. For successful tissue regeneration, it is indispensable to give cells an environment suitable for regeneration induction. Tissue engineering is a newly emerging biomedical technology for creating an environment for tissue regeneration with various biomaterials. The paper presented here overviews recent research data on tissue regeneration based on tissue engineering, and briefly explains the key technology of tissue engineering.