Another stem cell development.
For this development , Drs. Tal Dvir and Assaf Shapria (along with PhD candidate Nadav Noor and Drs. Reuven Edri, Idan Gal, and Lior Wertheim; all from Tel Aviv University) removed omental tissue (the omentum is the sheet of fatty tissue that stretches over the abdomen, affording vital immune responses ) from a patient and converted them into pluripotent stem cells. And, then induce those cells to form cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells. These two cell types are then incorporated into a hydrogel that can then be printed by the 3D printer. Initially, these structures were simply cardiac patches.
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