Open Questions: Regenerative Medicine

Galaxy: Tissue Engineering: Categorized site directory. Entries usually include descriptive annotations.

Tissue Engineering Pages: Web site oriented to professionals, with news stories, external links, conference information, and information on companies related to tissue engineering.
Children's Hospital Boston - Laboratory for Transplantation and Tissue Engineering: Brief overview of laboratory research in tissue engineering.

Sight for Sore Eyes: March 2007 Scientific American News Scan article, subtitled "Progress in cell transplants to heal damaged retinas."
Mending the Spinal Cord: September 2005 Scientific American Sidebar, subtitled "Researchers are finding ways to help nerves regenerate, and hope for therapies is growing."
Lens Crafters in the Lab: July 2000 Scientific American In Focus article, subtitled "Two teams have found a way to bioengineer the cornea--the thin layer of cells covering the eye like a pane of glass."
The regeneration gap: November 22, 2001 article from Nature Science Update on how studies of animals capable of body-part regeneration may be relevant to regenerative medicine in humans.

Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts?
Ken Muneoka, Manjong Han; David M. Gardiner
Scientific American, April 2008
Test-Tube Teeth
Paul T. Sharpe; Conan S. Young
Scientific American, August 2005
Rebuilding Broken Hearts
Smadar Cohen; Jonathan Leor
Scientific American, November 2004
Brain, Repair Yourself
Fred H. Gage
Scientific American, September 2003
The Human Body Shop
Doug Garr
Technology Review, April 2001, pp. 72-79: The field is called tissue engineering, and the objective is to induce cells to grow into transplantable organs outside the body. One key hurdle is vascularization -- providing organs with functioning blood vessels.
Repairing the Damaged Spinal Cord
John W. McDonald
Scientific American, September 1999, pp. 64-73: Promising new possibilities are now appearing that may enable repair or regeneration of damaged spinal cords.
Growing New Organs
David J. Mooney; Antonios G. Mikos
Scientific American, April 1999, pp. 60-67: The first steps have been taken toward the creation of synthetic human organs. The challenge lies in harnessing the body's own methods of generating specific tissue types.