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Scalable vascularized implants

Biodegradable and perfusable scaffolds enable the fabrication of implantable, millimetre-scale cardiac and hepatic tissue models.

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Figure 1: Scaffold structure and prevascularized tissue model.
Figure 2: Scaffold endothelialization.

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Zheng, Y., Roberts, M. Scalable vascularized implants. Nature Mater 15, 597–599 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4637

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