The Future of Biomedical Fabrics
July 25, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
According to the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, “Textiles can also be used to make copies of entire organs or parts of them.” One example of this is the so-called “Zurich heart”—a biodegradable polymer fleece that is embedded with cardiac cells which supposedly won’t result in immune system rejection. MORE
Image Credit: Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology