Overcoming the translational barriers of tissue adhesives

Nature Reviews Materials - Tập 5 Số 4 - Trang 310-329
Gonzalo Muñoz Taboada1, Kisuk Yang2, Maria Pereira3, Sophie S. Liu2, Yangshuo Hu2, Jeffrey M. Karp2, Natalie Artzi2, Yuhan Lee4
1BioDevek Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
2Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
3TISSIUM SA, Paris, France
4Center for Nanomedicine, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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