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1 November 2009
Researchers at the Institute for Hygiene and Biotechnology (IHB) at the Hohenstein Institute in Germany have successfully devised a special textile coating that allows adult human stem cells to colonise the surface fibres of textile implants. A molecular layer of natural biomaterials from the human extra-cellular matrix has been developed for this purpose.