PITTSBURGH (KDKA) Modern medicine is evolving quickly.

Now, with the introduction of bioengineering, doctors can have tissue made for their patients and veterinarians are having great success using nanotechnology in our pets.

Dr. Jed Johnson has a PhD in engineering and his firm engineers body tissue.

The part that I focus on is tissue engineering, where we are basically focusing and building or engineering new tissue for the body, Dr. Johnson said.

Their nanotechnology is an integral part of regenerative medicine.

Weve all seen regeneration. Weve all had cuts on our hands, right? And those cuts heal. So, our body is capable of healing, but we have to provide the right environment, Dr. Johnson said.

Enter nanofibers.

It takes a hundred of the microscopic fibers laid side-by-side to be as wide as a human hair.

Weave them together, and they provide a framework for healing.

Cells and tissue cant move across open space, they have to crawl on something, and this is really the key aspect to having a scaffold is it allows those cells to have a highway to move on to refill that wound, regenerate that native tissue, Dr. Johnson said.

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