Subcutaneous Hydrogel Spheres

Subcutaneous Hydrogel Spheres

Submitted by Sangeeta Bhatia and Cheri Li of the Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies at The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

Koch Institute at MIT, Institute of Medical Engineering and Science

Sangeeta Bhatia and Cheri Li
Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies
The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
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"Miniaturized, slowly-degradable hydrogel spheres were injected under the skin of a mouse. This image shows the spheres surrounded by host tissue. I was trying to learn if the hydrogels had begun to degrade, and if host blood vessels were able to form more easily in the spaces between the hydrogel spheres."

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