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Hybrid Plastics technology used in world’s first synthetic organ transplant
by Amy McCullough
Published: January 31,2012
Tags: blood clot, Carl Hagstrom, Dr. Alex Seifalian, Dr. Robert Lochhead, Hybrid Plastics, medical, Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane, polymer science, POSS, Sweden, synthetic scaffold, UMMC, University College of London Medical School, University of Mississippi Medical Center, University of Southern Mississippi
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