Over the past decade, the use of textiles had moved beyond theclothing industry to applications in medicine, building,infrastructural work and elsewhere. The progress made to date in useof textile technology for reconstructive surgery was reviewed inTextile Asia for June 1997 at p. 47. Further advance has sincefollowed, especially in the use of nonwovens. Drs Ko and Laurencinhere update the use of three-dimensional fibrous scaffolds for tissueengineering
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