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BioMedical Engineering OnLine BioMedCentral Book review Open Access Review of Scaffolding in Tissue Engineering, by Peter X. Ma and Jennifer Elisseeff (Editors) Eduardo Abreu* Address: Childrens Hospital of Boston, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Enders 1022, 300 Longwood Street, Boston MA 02115, USA Email: Eduardo Abreu* - Eduardo.Abreu@ * Corresponding author Published: 03 October 2006 Received: 12 September 2006 Accepted: 03 October 2006 BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2006, 5:52 doi:10.1186/1475-925X-5-52 This article is available from: /content/5/1/52 ? 2006 Abreu; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Book details Peter Ma X, Elisseeff Jennifer, (Editors): Scaffolding in Tissue Engineering CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, USA; 2006. xvi+638 pages, ISBN 1-57444-521-9 (Hardcover) the preparation of a comprehensive book about scaffold- ing in TE and, most of all, the coordination of the contri- butions of a large group of experts in TE (but with different backgrounds) would be an arduous task. All these efforts resulted in an extraordinary book. As a con- sequence, the comments in this review should be seen as positive criticisms and, who knows, suggestions for future editions of the book. Tissue engineering (TE) is a relatively new, interdiscipli- nary and multidisciplinary field that has seen intense development in recent years. One of the main motiva- tions for TE research is the chronic shortage of organ donors and other limitations related to organ and tissue transplantation. The idea that tissues, and ultimately organs, can be engineered to be used in patients requir- ing transplantation is at the same time revolutionary an