An Injectable Composite Material Reconstructs Damaged Soft Tissue in Rabbits (8 of 8) (VIDEO)

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Dr. Hai-Quan Mao explains how this project and collaboration between engineers and plastic surgeons came to be and demonstrates the injection of the composite material. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 1, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by X. Li at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD; and colleagues was titled, "Nanofiber-hydrogel composite-mediated angiogenesis for soft tissue reconstruction."

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Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine

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