Mount Sinai leads unprecedented attempt to discover rules for assembling human tissue
Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 07:35
in Biology & Nature
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and two other academic institutions have received federal funding to systematically assemble functional human kidney tissue from tissue modeled on a computer. If successful, the research -which ties together several emerging technologies including virtual tissue modeling and nanofabrication -could lead to a more predictable way for researchers to engineer tissue outside the body and, consequently, to screen for new drugs.