Book chapter
ConclusionChapter 12Conclusion
Biomaterials for Clinical Applications, pp 277-278
20 Aug 2010
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Abstract
Biomaterials science is a multidisciplinary success story, having benefitted from advances in biomedical knowledge, as well as engineering and the physical sciences. Innovative biomaterials can allow individuals to live longer and healthier lives, as demonstrated by the technologies and case studies contained within this book. Biomaterials have sufficient versatility to tackle infectious diseases, chronic degenerative diseases, developmental disorders, and traumatic injuries. While this volume focused on 10 specific disease pathologies, the biomaterial devices described will have therapeutic potential for a multitude of disease processes. For instance, biomaterials for targeted delivery of chemotherapy will allow effective treatment of lung cancerlung cancer along with several other cancers. Polymer-based vaccine adjuvantsadjuvants may help in preventing the spread of HIV/AIDSHIV/AIDS and numerous other infectious diseases. Biomaterials for nerve regenerationnerve regeneration will have clinical applications that extend well beyond strokestroke, to various additional neurodegenerative diseases. When biomaterials are designed with an eye toward clinical needs, the resulting innovations will address the world’s most prevalent diseases, yet will also find utility for related disease processes. It has been predicted that “ultimately, almost every human in technologically advanced societies will host a biomaterial” (Gristina 1981). Biomaterials scientists have the responsibility to create technologies that will reach both the developed world and the developing world. Modern discoveries in biomaterials and medical devices will rely on continual progress in molecular biology, polymer science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and clinical practice.
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- Title
- ConclusionChapter 12Conclusion
- Creators
- Sujata K. Bhatia - DuPont (United States)
- Publication Details
- Biomaterials for Clinical Applications, pp 277-278
- Publisher
- Springer New York; New York, NY
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Microbiology and Immunology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000282338900012
- Other Identifier
- 991021229890304721
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