Research into bioengineering has led to important achievements in recent years, with a number of different tissue types being developed. In the area of skin tissue epithelial cells have been successfully grown into implantable sheets, however, they do not have the proper appendages, the oil-secreting and sweat glands, that would allow them to function as normal tissue.  Now, researchers led by the RIKEN Center for … Continue reading Researcher successfully grow complex, implantable, skin tissue for the first time.