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Brain On A Bench Top, Rodrigo Lozano, Leo Stevens, Brianna C. Thompson, Kerry J. Gilmore, Robert A. Gorkin Iii, Elise M. Stewart, Marc In Het Panhuis, Mario I. Romero-Ortega, Gordon G. Wallace

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

Tissue grafting and organ transplantation are common techniques in modern medicine, but suffer from the widely-reported limitations of constrained supply and the risk of rejection, necessitating a lifetime of immunosuppressant medication [1]. The field of tissue engineering has advanced markedly over the last decade, and engineered tissues are under development for both regenerative medicine applications as well as the formation of accurate in vitro models for the study of fundamental tissue behaviours, disease states and drug discovery. Both biological and synthetic materials have been formed into cell-supporting tissue scaffolds [2,3]. In broad terms, biological materials and particularly extracellular matrix (ECM) …