Vascular Tissue Challenge
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NASA
Teams Engineer Complex Human Tissues, Win Top Prizes in NASA Challenge
Two teams of scientists from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have won first and second place in NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge. The prize competition aims to accelerate tissue engineering innovations to benefit people on Earth today and space explorers in the future. Team Winston, the first-place winner of NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge, used a chamber…
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NASA
NASA Highlights Winners of Challenge to Engineer Human Tissue
NASA will announce the first- and second-place winners of the Vascular Tissue Challenge, a prize competition to grow and sustain functioning human tissue in a lab, Wednesday, June 9. Experts will answer questions about the teams’ tissue engineering techniques during a special episode of NASA Science Live and media briefing. The NASA Science Live episode will air at 3 p.m. EDT on…
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