13^th Tissue Repair and Regeneration Congress

Embryonic Development & Regeneration

Regeneration and development are intricately linked processes. Following injury and disease, many developmental pathways are reactivated in order to regenerate damaged tissues. Understanding these developmental mechanisms and how they are recycled in response to tissue damage can inform efforts to achieve regeneration in cases where it does not naturally occur (as with human limbs) and efforts to utilize embryonic stem cells to engineer cell types and tissues in vitro with an eye towards therapies.