Cells are harvested from a stem or donor, or ideally the host, and placed on the scaffold.
But as Mr Carey tells it there is a gloomy inevitability to his progress from the cradle to the scaffold.
The scaffold then has to be injected with at least seven types of cells that make up the solid part of the liver.
One of the most harrowing final scenes in all of opera is the ending of Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites, " when the nuns condemned by the French Revolution walk one by one to the scaffold, singing a gradually thinning chorus punctuated by the slashing sounds of a guillotine.
Within a few weeks, the remaining real bone attaches itself to the implant and grows through the porous scaffold, encasing the implant in living bone within 18 months.
Amidst all this secret activity, only one expert seems to have managed to ascend the seventy-foot scaffold uninvited, a doctoral student by the name of Johanna Kolbe.
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Edward was hit on the head with a scaffold pole and taken upstairs while bleeding profusely, the court heard.
Students from Slovenia were the grand prize winners in 2010 for designing a DNA scaffold that accelerates the synthesis of particular proteins.
The concept is amazingly simple: A polymer scaffold is designed in the shape of, say, an individual's liver.
He then took brain stem cells from another rat and grew part of the spinal cord on a polymer scaffold.
The spheres are then dissolved to leave a 3D-metal scaffold onto which a nickel-tin alloy is added to form the anode, and a mineral called manganese oxyhydroxide to form the cathode.
Stephen Wilson, a chemist at New York University, discovered that the surface of the fullerene molecule could be used as a scaffold to support other molecules.
But the prospect of a near future in which scaffold-riding professionals are replaced by automatons doesn't appeal to everyone particularly window washers and the New Yorkers who romanticize them.
They had used a small piece of each patient's own tissue from the bladder, then grew the cells in a lab onto a mesh scaffold shaped like a urethra.
Instead of using a man-made scaffold, Dr. Taylor had used the scaffolding from an actual rat heart as the starting point.
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Pretty awesome, just a shame the outside is getting a facelift and is half-covered in scaffold.
Mr White said more recently it had been used in Scotland as a "scaffold" for "patients cells to be grown and either implanted or put back in the body".
Biodegradable plastic is then poured into the mould to make enough slices that can be sandwiched together using pressure and heat, to create a scaffold for a whole liver.
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