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Issue: November 2009, page: 6
Textile implants colonized with human stem cells
Researchers at the Institute for Hygiene and Biotechnology at Germany’s Hohenstein Institute have devised an optimized textile coating that allows adult human stem cells to colonize the surface fibres of textile implants.