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
They discovered that the cytoplasm becomes stiffer during interphase, creating a supportive scaffold that stabilizes the actin band.
From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026
When a nerve is cut it sprouts a basic scaffold that it tries to regenerate along, but which only last about 10 days.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 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
Mounting the scaffold, going right up into the sky, was something the imagination could hold on to.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
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