Smart Prosthetics Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and Mind: Task Group Summaries (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Design a Functional Tissue Prosthesis
Design a Functional Tissue Prosthesis
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For example, skin can be replaced by the use of allogeneic keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts on a collagen scaffold. This construct can form an epidermis, stratum corneum with barrier properties and a basal lamina in vivo.
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7: 603-616. TASK GROUP SUMMARY Summary written by: Ewen Callaway, Graduate Science Writing Student, University of California, Santa Cruz
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-- Nicola Tesla Sitting toward the front of the auditorium, we waited anxiously to tell an audience of more than 100 eminent doctors and scientists just what the group had been up to the past three days. While we waited, Boyd Evans, an engineer from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, compared the four-day event to a vacation.
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Diabetes affects millions of people and is one of the leading causes of kidney failure. The current treatment, dialysis, is burdensome and often ineffective, so a replacement kidney would have a huge impact on people's lives, the group agreed.
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In a fit of creativity the group wondered how electric eels generate their trademark shock. A quick web search revealed the animals employ a series of specialized cells called electrocytes, able to generate up to 600 volts of electricity.
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The plan was to first direct stem cells to become muscle, and then chemically divert them down the path to nerve cell. This would be a major challenge, said Jenifer Elisseeff, a bioengineer at Johns Hopkins University, but not an impossible one.
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But he said the task group meetings allowed the group to come together in a way that makes future collaboration easier, no matter the focus. The conference "can be an inflection point if our idea takes off," he said.
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