Application of microtechnologies for the vascularization of engineered tissues

Recent advances in medicine and healthcare allow people to live longer, increasing the need for the number of organ transplants. However, the number of organ donors has not been able to meet the demand, resulting in an organ shortage. The field of tissue engineering has emerged to produce organs to...

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Main Authors: Gauvin, Robert (Contributor), Guillemette, Maxime D. (Contributor), Khademhosseini, Ali (Contributor), Dokmeci, Mehmet R. (Author)
Other Authors: Harvard University- (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor), Dokmeci, Mehmet (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd, 2012-02-02T20:39:40Z.
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