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Recent advances in bone tissue engineering scaffolds.

Susmita Bose, +2 more
- 01 Oct 2012 - 
- Vol. 30, Iss: 10, pp 546-554
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In this review, recent advances in bone scaffolds are highlighted and aspects that still need to be improved are discussed.
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This article is published in Trends in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2012-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1737 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bone regeneration & Tissue engineering.

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