Researchers in basic sciences, engineering, and medicine consider the properties, performance, and use of biomaterials as delivery or reconstructive vehicles. In sections on biocompatibility and the interface between biomaterial and tissue, tissue engineering equivalents, delivery systems, and emerging concepts in biomaterials, they discuss the role of extracellular matrix remodeling in advanced biocompatibility, principles of living organ reconstruction by tissue engineering, delivering growth factor by a cloned multipotent cell from bone marrow stroma potentiates bone repair, relationships between biomaterials and biosensors, and other topics. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
