This'll get the christers spinning!
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,66635-0.html
From the article:
The work is not all about vanity. The researchers' first goal is to help
people who have undergone mastectomies or been disfigured by other
surgeries or injuries. Tissue engineered from stem cells could have two
benefits: It would stay firm longer, and it would eliminate a separate
surgery, which is often necessary to extract healthy tissue for bone
transplants, facial implants or burn treatments.
"The stem cells generated tissue in this particular scaffold and they
maintained their shape almost 100 percent four weeks after implantation
in mice," said Dr. Jeremy Mao, director and associate professor of
tissue engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "In
conventional fat transplant, it shrinks substantially over a period of a
few weeks."
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