Overview

The field of tissue and cell banking is rapidly expanding with clinical requirements regularly changing. NHS Blood and Transplant Tissue Services is the only UK tissue bank with a dedicated research and development team and a purpose built Tissue Development Laboratory, working on the improvement of existing processes and products and the development of innovative procedures and therapies. These include the development of advanced washing procedures to reduce the possibility of disease transmission and aid tissue incorporation and tissue engineering to develop grafts which can grow with the patient.