During recent years, three dimensional scaffolds manufactured via electrospinning technology have emerged within the scientific community as a way to efficiently cultivate stem cells in an in vitro environment, closely resembling an in vivo environment. These scaffolds, acting as an extra cellular matrix, may have a promising future in neural tissue engineering.
Today, the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience at Chalmers University of Technology cooperates with Department of Neurology and Physiology at Gothenburg University on a joint project with the aim to investigate and develop cultivation of human neural stem cells on electrospun scaffolds (see picture).