Curated news and deep explorations of tissue engineering for those who care about biotechnology’s impact on people and planet.
What does a Fleshier Future look like?
Written by a working tissue engineer and scientist (me!), Fleshy Futures: Tissue Engineering the 21st Century is a little blog covering meaty topics. We're interested in telling stories about the people wrestling with the challenges of biology on many fronts, exploring the barriers that prevent regenerative biotechnologies from scaling and highlighting the scientists, engineers, and, artists developing cutting-edge tissue engineering technologies.
We’ll talk to clinicians and orthopedic researchers developing solutions to keep an aging global population active. From tissue engineered intervertebral discs to living knee replacements. We’ll chat with the renegades pioneering the field of cellular agriculture, bringing tissue engineered muscle and fat from the lab to our tables. We’ll discuss with scientists how biomaterials can play a role in battling the climate crisis. We’ll sit down with ecologists studying symbiosis and examine how those relationships can inform the coculture systems we use to model and create complex tissues. Bioethicists critiquing the latest craze: designer pig organs and decellularized animal matrices. Architects and designers looking to build with living materials. All mutually driven by tissue engineering technologies aiming to create a better future for people and planet.
Why subscribe?
This blog is definitely worth subscribing to if…
You’re a scientist, engineer, regulator, funder, communicator, designer, artist, or entrepreneur currently working in the tissue engineering/regenerative medicine/biomaterials space.
You’re looking to keep up with the latest tissue engineering news, sent directly to your inbox. Unless you follow individual scientists or journals, you probably don’t have a reliable source for keeping up with tissue engineering news. The sources we do have are very formal, dry, and focused mostly on new publications in their own journals. Fleshy Futures is your casual, fun, more human and less clinical source of information that takes a deep and nuanced look at regenerative technologies.
You’re a dreamer (or at least part of you is). Because your love for science fiction has shaped your identity. You delight in a future as fleshy as your imagination and you relish in the idea of discovery, of turning science fiction into science fact.
But you’re also a realist. You have concrete concerns about the current trajectory of technology and society, and you want nuanced coverage of the real challenges to developing, scaling, and translating regenerative biotechnologies. You're interested in hearing about meaningful solutions and the roadblocks in the way.
You’re looking for new perspectives. The potential applications for tissue engineering are broad and diverse. And the perspectives that will influence the development of these technologies are extremely interdisciplinary. Subscribe to Fleshy Futures for a different perspective than the one you find at your regular academic conference or industry meetup. Just maybe you’ll find inspiration for your next endeavor.
To my enthusiasts for living materials of all sorts,
I’m looking forward to building a fleshier future with you.
Matthew
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Want your research spotlighted for the Fleshy Futures community? Interested in fleshing out a story? Reach out! I’d love to hear from other scientists, communicators, and living material enthusiasts of all sorts.
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The views and words expressed on Fleshy Futures do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations that currently or have previously employed its writers.
