Bioengineering Organs
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 1:06 pm
Hi, I am doing a project relating to "Creating a Kidney: How Stem Cells Might Be Used to Bioengineer a Vital Organ". In the Make It Your Own section it said that there are many other organs that can be bioengineered. I am planning to make this project about lungs, but I am having a hard time finding out what cell types I am doing the research on. For example, the kidney has a main filtering system called the nephrons and the nephrons have two main parts to it that can be regenerated using stem cells.
The lungs have over 40 different cell types such as the epithelial cells: alveolar epithelial cells, basal cells, ciliated cells, etc. Would I have to do research on all of the 40 cells or only the important ones? If it is the important ones then which ones are the most important?
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Hi, I am doing a project related to "Creating a Kidney: How Stem Cells Might Be Used to Bioengineer a Vital Organ" except I am doing it on bioengineering lungs. I am wondering how I could find research papers that would explain the different soluble factors used to differentiate lung cells, like how it is shown in table 1 of the procedures. I have tried using the websites suggested but I do not understand how to specifically look for these soluble factors.
Thank you so much if you are willing to suggest websites/articles!
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The lungs have over 40 different cell types such as the epithelial cells: alveolar epithelial cells, basal cells, ciliated cells, etc. Would I have to do research on all of the 40 cells or only the important ones? If it is the important ones then which ones are the most important?
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Hi, I am doing a project related to "Creating a Kidney: How Stem Cells Might Be Used to Bioengineer a Vital Organ" except I am doing it on bioengineering lungs. I am wondering how I could find research papers that would explain the different soluble factors used to differentiate lung cells, like how it is shown in table 1 of the procedures. I have tried using the websites suggested but I do not understand how to specifically look for these soluble factors.
Thank you so much if you are willing to suggest websites/articles!
[Administrator note - your posts have been combined.]