Contents

Bioengineering in Asia-Pacific
Guest Editors: JT Schantz and DW Hutmacher

•  Preface
(JT Schantz and DW Hutmacher)
•  Researchers Develop New Device to Aid in Tissue Engineering
•  Scientists Add Blood Vessels to Engineered Tissue to Make it more Viable
•  Scientists Reveal How Biomaterial Properties Control Cellular Responses
•  New Way of Tissue Regeneration to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcer
•  Bone Regeneration Within Patient's Body
•  QUT Eyes Scarless Healing
(David Leavesley, Damien Harkin, Sean McElwain, Graeme George, Zee Upton)
•  Tissue Engineering - A New Technology in China
(Yilin Cao, MD, PhD and Wei Liu, MD, PhD)
•  Cell Sheet Engineering: The Adolescence of Tissue Engineering
(Joseph Yang, Masayuki Yamato, and Teruo Okano)
•  In vivo bioimaging using Transgenic Rats and the Role of Bone Marrow cells in Wound Healing
(Takashi Murakami, Hirokazu Inoue and Eiji Kobayashi)
•  Regenerative Medicine: Switching on the Body's Own Repair Systems
(Fiona MacDonald, Ph.D.)
•  Recent Activities of Regenerative Medicine in Korea
(Gilson Khang Ph.D.)
•  Tissue Engineering Laboratory in Malaysia
(Ruszymah Bt. Hj. Idrus and Aminuddin Bin Saim)
•  Bioengineering as a Career?
(Ng Kee Woei)
•  Interview with Professor Jackie Ying
•  Single Cell Mechanics and its Connections to Human Diseases
(LIM Chwee Teck PhD)
•  The Development of Heparin-Like Sugars as Stem Cell - Active Drugs: A Unique Singapore Slant on an Old Problem
(Simon M. Cool and Victor Nurcombe)
•  Conference Calendar