A material–cell hybrid device that mimics the anatomic shape of the intervertebral disc has been made and successfully implanted into mice to show that tissue engineering may, in the future, benefit sufferers from back pain.
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Hukins, D. A live disc. Nature Mater 4, 881–882 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1540
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