Comment clarification.My comments cited in "Boning Up: Tissue for grafts grown inside the body" (SN: 7/30/05, p. 68) were taken out of context. My original comments were: "The authors present a clever strategy to generate autologous autologous /au·tol·o·gous/ (aw-tol´ah-gus) related to self; belonging to the same organism. au·tol·o·gous adj. 1. bone.... This approach is very promising, since bone tissue for subsequent grafting into defects may be grown within a patient without the need to deliver cells and bioactive bi·o·ac·tive adj. Of or relating to a substance that has an effect on living tissue. bioactive having an effect on or eliciting a response from living tissue. factors. As tissue engineers grapple with the problem of choosing an appropriate cell source to generate tissues, Stevens et al. have found an alternative approach that circumvents the issue altogether." EBEN EBEN European Business Ethics Network ALSBERG, CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, CLEVELAND, OHIO "Cleveland" redirects here. For the Cleveland metropolitan area, see . For other uses, see Cleveland (disambiguation). Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. |
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