As a high school sophomore, Asad Moten read a news story about engineering new organs for patients waiting for a transplant, and decided to start his own tissue-engineering project. His efforts led to the invention of a scaffold that can help regenerate tissue and that may one day be able to help patients with spinal cord injuries, serious burns, nerve defects and other chronic wounds. The invention, known as a protein printboard, may also lead to methods to engineer transplantable organs. (source: web.mit.edu)
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