Engineered skin and muscle produced like spools of tape might sound like science fiction, but it’s not. Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a new device that may allow for the uniform, large-scale engineering of tissue. The device’s methods differ wildly from typical methods for producing engineered tissues, mixing biomaterials to create a sheet-like “mosaic hydrogel” substance into which different cells are precisely seeded. Because the cells are...
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