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.

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