Polymeric Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering Application

Dear Colleagues,

The purpose of regenerative medicine is to repair, replace or reconstruct the function of tissues or organs due to disease, injury and senescence. At present, chronic and lethal diseases are mostly treated by treating the symptoms or delaying the deterioration of the disease. However, scientists expect that in the future, the function of organs will be reconstructed through the technology and strategy of regenerative medicine to improve the impact of diseases on individuals. According to the treatment concept and technology, regenerative medicine can be divided into four major fields, including cell therapy, gene therapy, tissue engineering and small molecules & biologics. Among them, tissue engineering is a very important part of regenerative medicine. At present, some tissue engineering-related products have entered clinical applications, although scientists still conduct to related research. In the field of tissue engineering applications, the development of medical materials is the main focus. Such as, cellular scaffolds or biomimetic scaffolds that can promote cell proliferation and differentiation, materials and techniques for enhancing cell activity, materials that can contact with biological components such as cells, proteins, nucleic acids, bacteria, etc., materials that are not rejected by cells, medical materials that can fuse with cells and have benefits on cells, artificial organs, and drug delivery system, etc.

In short, it will be an inevitable trend to make and provide tissue-engineered scaffolds to replace the current strategies of clinic treatment by means of biological tissue engineering. This special issue of polymers entitled “Polymeric Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering Application” will attempt to cover the recent developments in biological polymeric scaffolds on the subject of the human diseases. Of particular interest are the development and application of new polymeric scaffolds, which can provide new and significant improvements in the application of clinical materials.

Prof. Dr. Feng-Yen Lin
Guest Editor

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• Regenerative Medicine
• Tissue Engineering
• Scaffold
• Biological polymers
• Bioresorbable Material
• Tissue-engineered tissue or organ