Tissue Engineering

Focusing on the difficult case of restoring cartilage, which requires both flexibility and mechanical strength, the researchers investigated a new...

QUT biofabrication team has made a major breakthrough by 3D printing mechanically reinforced, tissue engineered constructs for the regeneration of...

Blocked blood vessels can quickly become dangerous. It is often necessary to replace a blood vessel - either by another...

A team of researchers from Italy, Israel and the United Kingdom has succeeded in generating mature, functional skeletal muscles in...

Researchers have developed a new, low-cost method to build DNA nanotubes block by block – a breakthrough that could help...

The ability to grow human heart muscle cells in bulk could help routine replacement of heart cells damaged during a...

Scientists have found the balance necessary to aid healing with high-tech hydrogel. Rice chemist Jeffrey Hartgerink, lead author Vivek Kumar...

In a laboratory first, Duke researchers have grown human skeletal muscle that contracts and responds just like native tissue to...

A new device for building large tissues from living components of three-dimensional microtissues borrows on ideas from electronics manufacturing. The...

Nature's ingenious systems: A layer of cells called endothelial cells lines the interior of blood vessels. When blood flows through...

A research team bringing together José Cohen and Philippe Grimbert (Inserm Unit 955/Université Paris Est Créteil and the Centre for...

Scientists from the University of Leeds have discovered a gene that plays a vital role in blood vessel formation, research...

Scientists from the University of Leeds have found a way to restore the function of damaged blood vessel repairing cells,...

When stem cells are used to regenerate bone tissue, many wind up migrating away from the repair site, which disrupts...

Molecular ‘fingerprint’ for tissue taken from first isotope-enriched mouse has huge potential for scientific breakthroughs, as well as improved medical...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important step in understanding how hearts are formed in developing...

Damaged leg muscles grew stronger and showed signs of regeneration in three out of five men whose old injuries were...

Tissue engineering has been used to construct natural oesophagi, which in combination with bone marrow stem cells have been safely...

How do embryos form the cells in our lungs, muscles, nerves and other tissues? A new process decodes the genetic...

Scientists at the University of Basel report first ever successful nose reconstruction surgery using cartilage grown in the laboratory. Cartilage...