CELL CULTURES IN 3-D OPTICAL TECHNIQUES CONTRIBUTE TO ADVANCES IN TISSUE ENGINEERING

摘要

Biologists have employed cell cultures since the middle of the past century, when they proved integral to the development of viral vaccines. For decades, cells were studied in essentially two-dimensional environments. The need for three-dimensional ones became apparent, however, with the advent of tissue engineering in the 1990s – 3-D cultures, of course, better replicated the in vivo environment that researchers were seeking to reproduce.