Kelly Schultz: How Cells Remodel Their Natural Environment (VIDEO)

Lehigh University

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"Cells do not simply reside within a material -- they actively reengineer it," says Kelly Schultz, P.C. Rossin assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. "Characterizing how they behave in 3-D synthetic material will advance biomaterial design for wound healing, tissue engineering and stem cell expansion."

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