New findings enable more heart donations
Credit: Photo by Jonathan Moonen There is a risk of every fourth heart examined for possible donation being dismissed as ...
Tag: Transplantation
Research in Regenerative Medicine proposes a quality control framework for umbilical cord blood-sourced allografts
The recent study from Burst Biologics challenges existing standards and outlines future safety and potency benchmarks The recent study from ...
Testing corneal cell quality? Apply physics
Kyoto scientists develop a physical biomarker for cornea restoration therapyCredit: Kyoto University/Tomo Narashima Our eyes -- the windows to the ...
Unique hybrid implant first installed to a cat
Credit: © Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS Scientific team of a small innovative enterprise Biomimetix, based on the National University of Science ...
Engineering faculty member receives grants totaling $1.5 million for bioprinting
Credit: Ozbolat Lab, Penn State Ibrahim Tarik Ozbolat, Hartz Family Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, has ...
Helping transplanted stem cells stick around and do their jobs
New microgel encapsulation method paves the way for more efficient cell therapies Bone marrow transplants of hematopoietic stem cells have ...
New study highlights advantages of living-donor liver transplant over deceased donor
PITTSBURGH, July 12, 2019 - Living-donor liver transplant offers numerous advantages over deceased-donor transplant, including better three-year survival rates for ...
Natural antioxidant helps improve immune-based therapies by modulating T-cells
Credit: Emma Vought, Medical University of South Carolina Shikhar Mehrotra, Ph.D. and Xue-Zhong Yu, M.D., National Institutes of Health-funded researchers ...
The Lancet: Nerve transfer surgery restores hand function and elbow extension in 13 young adults with complete paralysis
13 young adults with tetraplegia are able to feed themselves, hold a drink, brush their teeth, and write as a ...
Growing embryonic tissues on a chip
Credit: Andrea Manfrin, EPFL It's no surprise that using human embryos for biological and medical research comes with many ethical ...
Using 3D-printing to stop hair loss
Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Center Columbia researchers have created a way to grow human hair in a dish, which ...
Adding clinical variables improves accuracy of lung allocation score
Improved scoring better identifies sickest cystic fibrosis and COPD patients Tuesday, June 25, 2019, Cleveland: Implemented back in 2005, the ...
Helping the body’s ability to grow bone
Credit: University of Portsmouth For the first time, scientists have been able to study how well synthetic bone grafts stand ...
Mystery of immunosuppressive drug’s biosynthesis finally unlocked
Credit: ZHANG Wei and LI Shengying Mycophenolic acid (MPA), discovered in 1893, was the first natural antibiotic to be isolated ...