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Treating Spinal Pain with Replacement Discs Made of “Engineered Living Tissue” Moves Closer to Reality

For the first time, bioengineered spinal discs were successfully implanted and provided long-term function in the largest animal model ever evaluated for tissue-engineered disc replacement. A new Penn Medicine study published in Science Translational Medicine provides compelling translational evidence that the cells of patients suffering…