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Generating new kidneys using tissue engineering technologies is an innovative strategy for overcoming the shortage of donor organs for transplantation. Here we report how to efficiently engineer the kidney vas...
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Open AccessExperimental Evaluation of Kidney Regeneration by Organ Scaffold Recellularization
The rising number of patients needing renal replacement therapy, alongside the significant clinical and economic limitations of current therapies, creates an imperative need for new strategies to treat kidney ...
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Open AccessTwo-photon polymerized “nichoid” substrates maintain function of pluripotent stem cells when expanded under feeder-free conditions
The use of pluripotent cells in stem cell therapy has major limitations, mainly related to the high costs and risks of exogenous conditioning and the use of feeder layers during cell expansion passages.
