MATEs - Microbial Applications to Tissue Engineering
The University of Sheffield is part of a multidisciplinary network working on microbial applications to tissue engineering called MATEs - Microbial Applications to Tissue Engineering. This is a network funded by BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC and AHRC. Six other networks have been funded, to increase capability, so that the UK is at the forefront of Synthetic Biology research.
The specific aim of MATEs is to examine the feasibility, ethical, social and legal issues of using forward engineering tools to generate synthetic biological materials to mimic the basement membrane. Various medical disciplines would benefit from an extracellular matrix produced using microorganism-based synthetic biology chassis as factories to produce or modify adhesive or embedding macromolecules and matrices for eventual use in tissue engineering.
See link on the right hand side for information about the Sheffield 2009 iGEM competition team.
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