Scaffold (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Scaffold

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The scaffold is built out of a flexible, biocompatible material with 30-micrometer pores that support the fragile cardiac cells and allow access to blood and nutrients. The scaffold for heart repair includes 60-micrometer channels, seen here as the larger holes, where the cardiac cells can fuse into long chains.

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