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Artificial blood ‘will be manufactured in factories’
Wellcome Trust-funded stem cell research has produced red blood cells fit for transfusion into humans, paving the way for the...
Laboratory-grown vaginas implanted in patients
Scientists reported today the first human recipients of laboratory-grown vaginal organs. A research team led by Anthony Atala, M.D., director...
Light-activated neurons from stem cells restore function to paralysed muscles
A new way to artificially control muscles using light, with the potential to restore function to muscles paralysed by conditions...
Erasing a genetic mutation
Researchers reverses a liver disorder in mice by correcting a mutated gene.Using a new gene-editing system based on bacterial proteins,...
Self-healing bioengineered muscle grown in the laboratory
Bioengineers have grown living skeletal muscle that looks a lot like the real thing. It contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates...
Experts create intelligent ‘plaster’ to monitor patients
Medical engineers said Sunday they had created a device the size of a plaster which can monitor patients by tracking...
