Researchers at Oregon Medical Laser Center are currently developing techniques to create tissue engineered arteries using autologous cells. The Clinic team has designed, constructed and tested a command and control system to aid in optimizing a tissue engineering environment. The system controls parameters of an artificial blood vessel environment, monitors the physical conditions experienced by the growing tissue and communicates information about the viability of the tissue to researchers. The use of this system is intended to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the tissue engineering process.