Lee, Esther J.Tabor, Jeffrey J.Mikos, Antonios G.2014-07-182014-07-182014Lee, Esther J., Tabor, Jeffrey J. and Mikos, Antonios G.. "Leveraging synthetic biology for tissue engineering applications." <i>Inflammation and Regeneration,</i> 34, no. 1 (2014) The Japanese Society of Inflammation and Regeneration: 15-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2492/inflammregen.34.015.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/76252Restoration of damaged tissues and organs requires precise control of cellular processes at the molecular level. Synthetic biology offers genetic tools that can be used to program the molecular biology of the cell, thereby potentially overcoming the various challenges hampering contemporary tissue engineering applications.engArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.Journal articlegene regulatory devicesgenetically modified cellsinducersynthetic biologytissue engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2492/inflammregen.34.015