Origami unfolds a new tissue engineering strategy
July 30, 2013 by Angela Herring
Carol Livermore has developed a way to precisely assemble objects on a two dimensional surface. She believes that folding these surfaces like pieces of origami paper will afford a simple and effective tissue engineering approach. Photo by Brooks Canaday.
Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, has been around for more than a millennium, but associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineeringCarol Livermore is now using it to create solutions in an emerging multidisciplinary field in medicine: tissue engineering.
