Stem Cells -- "Stem Cells into Liver" - Basic Research and Potential Clinical Applications -- Mesenchymal Stem Cells Increase Self-Renewal of Small Intestinal Epithelium and Accelerate Structural Recovery after Radiation Injury -- Optimizing Viral and Non-Viral Gene Transfer Methods for Genetic Modification of Porcine Mesenchymal Stem Cells -- Transplantation of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells for Treatment of Central Nervous System Diseases -- Soluble and Insoluble Signals -- Chondrocyte Signaling and Artificial Matrices for Articular Cartilage Engineering -- Osteoinduction with Colloss®, Colloss® E, and GFm -- Biglycan Is a Positive Modulator of BMP-2 Induced Osteoblast Differentiation -- Use of Neopterin as a Bone Marrow Hematopoietic and Stromal Cell Growth Factor in Tissue-Engineered Devices -- Scaffolds and Matrix Design -- Injectable Synthetic Extracellular Matrices for Tissue Engineering and Repair -- Temporal Changes in PEG Hydrogel Structure Influence Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Proliferation and Matrix Mineralization -- Novel Biophysical Techniques for Investigating Long-Term Cell Adhesion Dynamics on Biomaterial Surfaces -- Evaluation of Various Types of Scaffold for Tissue Engineered Intervertebral Disc -- Physicochemical Characterization of Photopolymerizable Plga Blends -- Porous Tantalum Trabecular Metal Scaffolds in Combination with a Novel Marrow Processing Technique to Replace Autograft -- Preparation of Sponge Using Porcine Small Intesinal Submucosa and Their Applications as a Scaffold and a Wound Dressing -- Bioreactor and Assessment Technologies -- Modulation of Cell Differentiation in Bone Tissue Engineering Constructs Cultured in a Bioreactor -- Bioreactors for Tissues of the Musculoskeletal System -- Non-Invasive Monitoring of Tissue-Engineered Pancreatic Constructs by NMR Techniques -- Animal Models and Clinical Strategies -- From Molecules to Matrix: Construction and Evaluation of Molecularly Defined Bioscaffolds -- Age-Related Differences in Articular Cartilage Wound Healing: A Potential Role for Transforming Growth Factor ?1 in Adult Cartilage Repair -- Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Vascularization in Tissue Engineering -- Predictive Value of In Vitro and In Vivo Assays in Bone and Cartilage Repair - What do They Really Tell Us about the Clinical Performance? -- Science, Regulation, and The Public -- Engineered Tissues: The Regulatory Path from Concept to Market -- Tissue Engineering Strategies -- Fibrin in Tissue Engineering -- Ectopic Bone Induction by Equine Bone Protein Extract -- Adipose Tissue Induction In Vivo -- Ocular Tissue Engineering -- Molecular Mechanism of Osteochondroprogenitor Fate Determination During Bone Formation.