Buddy Ratner (bioengineering professor and director, University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials program) part of the “Rebuilding the baby boomer: Spare parts for the 21st century” panel at Health Journalism 2009, gave a presentation on tissue engineering and the healing properties of biomaterials . Ratner talked outlined just how such materials can be improved and used for increasing life expectancy and repairing damaged tissues, among other things.
