Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Printing Muscle and Bone: Ink-jet printers allow tissue engineers to control cell development and could one day be used to construct complex cellular

Source: MIT Technology Review
Date: December 19, 2006

Summary:

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have successfully directed adult stem cells from mice to develop into bone and muscle cells with the aid of a custom-designed ink-jet printer. They say it's a first step toward better understanding tissue regeneration, which may one day lead to therapies for repairing damaged tissues, as occurs in osteoarthritis.

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