Friday, October 05, 2007

Researchers mimic vascular system to nourish engineered tissue for transplants

Source: Cornell News Service
Date: October 5, 2007

Summary:

One day soon, laboratories may grow synthetically engineered tissues such as muscle or cartilage needed for transplants. In a major step forward, Cornell engineers describe in the journal Nature Materials a microvascular system they have developed that can nourish growing tissues.