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Penn Researchers Engineer First System of Human Nerve-Cell Tissue

Caption: Four individual human DRG neurons that survived for months in culture. Differing colors indicate different neuron-specific stains. Bottom: Center region of an engineered human nervous tissue construct showing stretch-grown axon bundles.

Credit: Douglas H. Smith, MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

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