Tissue Engineering, Stem Cells, and Gene Therapies: Proceedings of BIOMED 2002-The 9th International Symposium on Biomedical Science and Technology, held September 19-22, 2002, in Antalya, Turkey

Recent years have seen an upsurge of significant interest in cell-based technologies. A range of productive and lively debate have taken place relating to tissue engineering, namely the construction of tissues and whole organs using molecularly-designed resorbable biomaterials to create tissue de novo, the potential use of human embryonic stem cells for transplantation and regenerative medicine, with similar potential for adult-derived stem cells, and gene therapy, in relation to cell trans...