Riyadh, March 9 -- The National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (MEPhI), Russia, has set up a Laboratory for Regenerative Technologies and Tissue Engineering with the support from Rosatom, State Atomic Energy Corporation. The new laboratory will be a center for biomedical innovation and future professionals' training. The laboratory will also grow biocompatible equivalents of blood vessels using patients' cells. The biofabricator developed by Rosatom scientists will simulate tissue growth at the micro level.

The laboratory was formally opened on March 5, 2025. The opening ceremony was addressed by Vladimir Shevchenko, Rector of MEPhI, and Dmitry Baidarov, Director of the New Businesses Support Department at Rosatom, Igor Reshetov, canc...