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Reimagining eggshells and other everyday items to grow human tissues and organs

  • Written by Gulden Camci-Unal, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Are eggshells the next supermaterial for tissue engineers?icepkman/Shutterstock.com

Imagine you wanted to grow a blood vessel or kidney or liver outside the body. How would you get all the cells to stick together and form the correct three-dimensional structure?

That is just one of the many challenges of tissue engineering, a field with the broad...

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