Although modern medicine is incredibly advanced when compared to the practices of previous centuries, there are a number of roadblocks and bottlenecks still present in the medical field which demand our attention and drive innovations. For instance, there is a huge organ transplant waiting list of around 114,000 people urgently in need of a transplant and every 10 minutes someone new is added to the list. Thus there is an large demand for advances in implantable tissue engineering or regenerative medicine to assist patients who go without help for many months or even perish while still waiting on the list for their transplant. Additionally, there are a great number of diseases which manifest in irreparable damage to various tissues of the body of which there are no known therapies or cures. The ability to generate an accurate in vitro model of these tissues is essential to providing insights into the mechanisms which drive the disease as well as the best methods for stopping and reversing its progression. In the coming weeks, this blog will explore the latest and greatest in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine through the lens of various topics in biomaterials.