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Nature Materials 4, 881 - 882 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nmat1540
Tissue engineering: A live disc
David W. L. Hukins1
- David W. L. Hukins is at the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. e-mail: d.w.hukins@bham.ac.uk
Abstract
A material–cell hybrid device that mimics the anatomic shape of the intervertebral disc has been made and successfully implanted into mice to show that tissue engineering may, in the future, benefit sufferers from back pain.
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