Growing Replacement Cartilage
April 16, 2024 | Terry Sharrer
“For the new study, the TU Wien [Technical University, Vienna] team developed a technique that can grow samples of cartilage into basically any shape needed, which they demonstrated by forming it into the university’s logo. The key innovation isn’t so much the stem cells but the container they’re put in – tiny, hollow, 3D-printed “spheroids” that can be connected to each other like building blocks, providing a scaffold for the cartilage stem cells inside.” MORE
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