As the global demand for tissue and organ transplants significantly outstrips supply, tissue engineering might provide a potential solution. But one of the significant challenges in tissue engineering is growing tissue in 3-D, and the scaffolds used to position cells to develop tissue-specific functions are often challenging or prohibitively expensive to develop.
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