From New York City, at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society
Borrowing a few tricks from the field of electronics, biomedical researchers have developed a new material for growing tissue in the lab. The team, led by Frank Ko of Drexel University in Philadelphia, mixed polymer nanofibers with carbon nanotubes to produce a scaffold for growing cartilage.
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