New 3D Tissue Model May Speed Better Therapies for Fibrosis
Lab-grown skin captures the complexities of real disease to develop more effective treatments for scleroderma and other life-threatening conditions
Citation: Isha Singh from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine is the first author. Research reported in this article was supported by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences under award number UM1TR004398, as well as a grant from the National Scleroderma Foundation. Complete information on authors, funders, methodology, limitations, and conflicts of interest is available in the published paper.
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