One undergraduate’s modeling career began in the science lab rather than the art studio. A likeness of his nose demonstrates the value of a new polymer foam for growing cells into tissues.
Likeness of nose carved out of biodegradable polymer foam (above) acts as a scaffold for 2 weeks of bovine-cartilage cell growth (below).
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