Engineered Biomaterial Could Improve Success of Medical Implants
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 13:00
in Biology & Nature
Expensive, state-of-the-art medical devices and surgeries often are thwarted by the body's natural response to attack something in the tissue that appears foreign. Now, University of Washington engineers have demonstrated in mice a way to prevent this sort of response. Their findings were published online this week in the journal Nature Biotechnology.