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Healthy appetite for noodle nanostructures
Biomaterials specialist Samuel Stupp had the audience eating out of his hand when he played a video showing the formation of bundled nanofibres with lengths on the order of centimetres. The big news is that his self-assembling peptidic system can be used to align stem cells, which may prove very useful when it comes to generating muscle tissue or forming biological wires.
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