{"term":{"id":"13949","title":"tissue engineering","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - tissue engineering","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.13949","code":"13949","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Use of a combination of cells, engineering and materials methods, and suitable biochemical and physico-chemical factors to improve or replace biological functions.","notes":{"1":"While most definitions of tissue engineering cover a broad range of applications, in practice the term is closely associated with applications that repair or replace portions of or whole tissues (i.e., bone, cartilage, blood vessels, bladder, skin, etc.)."},"sources":["PAC, 2012, 84, 377. 'Terminology for biorelated polymers and applications (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)' on page 403 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-10-12-04)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13949\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13949\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13949\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'tissue engineering' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.13949","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-06-04T19:35:08+00:00"}}