Tissue Engineering

When a heart gets damaged, such as during a major heart attack, there’s no easy fix. But scientists working on...

One in a thousand children in the United States is deaf, and one in three adults will experience significant hearing...

Researchers at UC Berkeley found that an electrical current can be used to orchestrate the flow of a group of...

In end-stage lung disease, transplantation is sometimes the only viable therapeutic option, but organ availability is limited and rejection presents...

Scientists at Imperial College London are aiming to cut the need to use animals in research by improving methods for...

In 3D, healthy hearts do their own version of the twist. Rather than a simple pumping action, they circulate blood...

Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s...

Our cells don't live in a vacuum. They are surrounded by a complex, nurturing matrix that is essential for many...

A new bioprinting method developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard School...

It is a sad fact that old age brings diseases. Many may not be life-threatening, but they make life less...

By now nearly everyone has heard about “normal” 3-D printers, but 3D Bioprinters? It is seldom that one product, in...

The waterproof, light-activated glue developed by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

When biology and materials science converge, the results can be new materials that can be used to deliver targeted drugs,...

A Duke research team has developed a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage in joints, according to a report from...

Rice University bioengineers have developed a hydrogel scaffold for craniofacial bone tissue regeneration that starts as a liquid, solidifies into...

The idea of growing replacement tissue to repair an organ, or to swap it out for an entirely new one,...

A hand-held ''bio pen'' developed in Wollongong will allow surgeons to draw regenerating bone material directly on to the body....

This important scientific breakthrough, developed by the University of Granada, will aid the immediate use of artificially-grown skin for major...

An investigational, man-made blood vessel used in vascular grafts for kidney dialysis patients may potentially show encouraging early results among...

An ambitious 3D-printed heart project aims to make a natural organ replacement for patients possible within a decade. But the...