Method and structure for growing living organic tissue

摘要

A method and structure for growing living organic tissue in which a scaffold is provided on which cells of the tissue may be seeded and on which the tissue may be grown and a plurality of membrane capillaries are provided for conveying a nutrient fluid, the plurality of membrane capillaries being interspersed through the scaffold and having membranes which are permeable to nutrients and oxygen such that the tissue may be grown throughout the scaffold and whereby upon in vivo implantation a supporting nutrient tissue supply rapidly establishes.