New Perspectives in Regeneration

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Heber-Katz, Ellen (Editor), Stocum, David L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 367
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Regenerative medicine.; Tissue engineering.; Developmental biology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Human Genetics.; Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering.; Developmental Biology.

Regeneration, the homeostatic ability to maintain tissue structure in the face of normal cell turnover or loss of tissue damaged by trauma or disease, is an essential  developmental process that continues throughout life. As recently as a decade ago, any serious discussion of the possibility of rege...