Microscaffolds – a new strategy in tissue engineering - EurekAlert

A new strategy in tissue engineering has been developed at TU Wien: Tiny spherical microscaffolds are created in a high precision 3D printer. They are cultivated with living cells and then assembled. The cells keep multiplying, creating a tissue, the scaffold…

image: The micro-scaffold under the microscopeview more  Credit: TU Wien It is an age old dream of medicine: if arbitrary kinds of tissue could be produced artificially from stem cells, then injuri… [+4587 chars]

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