scaffold

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They then added the new cells to this scaffold and placed it in a bioreactor - a special container that pumps vital growth fluids through the tissue - to grow and mature for a week.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

One key advantage of this technology is that the cartilage scaffold can be manufactured ahead of time and used for many patients without tailoring it to each individual.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

Sir Thomas More on the scaffold of Tower Hill comforted his executioner and was reported by a witness to have repositioned his beard on the block, joking it had committed no treason.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

It is also home to restaurant chain Pizza Express – which has hung large banners on the scaffold to remind customers it is still open.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

In Boston, Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist and reformer, commended those who looked “upon that gibbet of John Brown, not as the scaffold of a felon, but as the cross of a martyr.”

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry