Notre Dame Engineering and Harvard Medical School collaborate on 4-year NIH project to create lab-grown organs
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While scientists have successfully printed small patches of human tissue, scaling those tissues into full-sized organs has remained elusive. In natural organisms, every cell must be within roughly 100 to 200 micrometers—about the thickness of two human hairs—of a blood vessel to receive oxygen and nutrients. Without this intricate, life-giving network, cells starve and die. […] The post Notre Dame Engineering and Harvard Medical School collaborate on 4-year NIH project to create lab-grown organs