Synthetic tracheal replacements experience infectious, inflammatory and mechanical failures.
What if you could utilize tissue engineering, imaging and 3D printing technologies to bring the benefits of a tissue engineered vascular graft to every child who needs one?
Research using a small animal model shows that it matters where in the body the cultured intestine is grown.
Seeding a high number of bone marrow mononuclear cells on graft appears to prevent narrowing.
A pair of surgeon-researchers is perfecting tissue engineered vascular grafts through bench, clinical and computational modeling studies.
