Printing hearts from seaweed
<p>Cardiac surgeons sometimes use an extract from brown seaweed, called alginate, to treat heart failure. It is injected into heart muscle, acting like a scaffold, to give the muscle a chance to rebuild itself. Alginate is a carbohydrate made of sugar molecules bound to each other. It has been...
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2016
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