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Nature Materials 7, 932 - 933 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2328

Tissue engineering: Polymers flex their muscles

Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann1

  1. Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann is in the Department of Pharmacology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Strasse 40, 37075 Göttingen, Germany.
    e-mail: w.zimmermann@med.uni-goettingen.de


Accordion-like honeycomb scaffolds support the formation of anisotropically contracting heart tissue in vitro, opening up possibilities in the area of cardiac tissue repair.

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