Accordion-like honeycombs for tissue engineering of cardiac anisotropy.

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Published in Nat Mater on November 02, 2008

Authors

George C Engelmayr1, Mingyu Cheng, Christopher J Bettinger, Jeffrey T Borenstein, Robert Langer, Lisa E Freed

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1: Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E25-330 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

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