synthetic 3D scaffold
Dec 27 2006, Irani

An MIT engineer and his Italian colleagues have successfully invention a 3D scaffold that in a near future may replace the ubiquitous Petri dish for growing cells! A designer scaffold is developed from a network of protein nanofibers. Each nano-fiber is...

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