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Researchers using ‘soft robots’ to toughen up artery implants
Researchers are using so-called “soft robots” to train artificially grown arteries for the stresses of the human body.
Scientists from the Queensland University of Technology are working on the evidence, or a proof-of-concept, for their project to grow replacement arteries made from a patient’s own cells.
Scientists are working on a method to “train” new blood vessels grown from a patients own cells to make it ready to be implanted.Credit:File Image
Using 3D printing and cultivating cells from the patient to grow implants made of their own tissue is both a cutting-edge medical field and also almost routine in 2021, with multiple projects active in the space in Australia and around the world.
However, the QUT team is working to…
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