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Lego-inspired bone and soft tissue repair with tiny, 3D-printed bricks – Medical Xpress
Tiny, 3-D-printed bricks have been designed to heal broken bones—and could one day lead to lab-made organs for human transplant.
Tiny, 3-D-printed bricks have been designed to heal broken bonesand could one day lead to lab-made organs for human transplant.
Inspired by Lego blocks, the small, hollow bricks serve as scaffolding onto which both hard and soft tissue can regrow better than today’s standard regeneration methods, according to new research published in Advanced Materials. Each brick is 1.5 millimeters cubed, or roughly the size of a small flea.
“Our patent-pending scaffolding is easy to use; it can be stacked t…
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