Engineer Seeks to Develop Therapies for Spinal Cord Injuries
Apr 8, 2015 3:02:22 GMT -8
Post by DJ on Apr 8, 2015 3:02:22 GMT -8
This is interesting. Amazing how body parts can be grown in a lab!
As an undergraduate doing an internship in chemical and biological engineering, Kyle Lampe felt a sense of wonder when he learned that human tissues created in a lab could potentially be used to aid in recovery from an injury.
“This tissue engineering idea was what got me really fired up,” he said. “We can create very physiological aspects of tissue in the lab. We can make things that behave like nerves in the lab.”
After his NSF-funded “Research Experience for Undergrads” at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the summer of 2003, Lampe knew he wanted to go into tissue engineering and help develop therapies to address traumas like spinal-cord injuries and debilitating diseases like Parkinson’s.
“This tissue engineering idea was what got me really fired up,” he said. “We can create very physiological aspects of tissue in the lab. We can make things that behave like nerves in the lab.”
After his NSF-funded “Research Experience for Undergrads” at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the summer of 2003, Lampe knew he wanted to go into tissue engineering and help develop therapies to address traumas like spinal-cord injuries and debilitating diseases like Parkinson’s.
Read more: Engineer Seeking to Develop Therapies for Spinal Cord Injuries, Parkinson’s
