11. The Future of Tissue Engineering Design for Bioreactor Stimulation

Scaffold biomaterials for tissue engineering can be produced in many different ways depending on the applications and the materials used. Most research into new biomaterials is based on an experimental trial-and-error approach that limits the possibility of making many variations to a single material and studying its interaction with its surroundings. Instead, computer simulation applied to tissue engineering can offer a more exhaustive approach to test and screen out biomaterials. In this chapter, current perspectives will be presented to indicate that more efforts need to be put into the development of such advanced studies, and a new workflow including the use of computer modelling for the development of new tissue engineering product is presented.