This Perspectives article describes the current status of the field of liver-tissue engineering and outlines some of the challenges being encountered. Some of the novel solutions being developed to ...

As 22 Americans die each day waiting for a transplant, researchers are trying to regrow or build new organs to remedy scarce organ donations. An Austin-based nonprofit, Solving Organ Shortage — or SOS ...

This stripped-down pig heart might not heal a bad romance, but it could one day be a miracle for someone with a bum ticker. At Mass General’s Ott Laboratory for Organ Engineering and Regeneration (see ...

Twenty people die waiting for an organ transplant every day in the US, but lab-grown organs so far lack the cellular density, vasculature, and functions required to make them viable replacements. The ...

There are 113,237 people in the United States waiting for an organ. About eighteen of them will die today because they won’t get one, according to the US Government’s organ donor website. If science ...

Is it possible to create entire organs from stem cells, that way the waiting list for organ donations could get shorter? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling ...

Listen with Speechify 0:00 1:00 By Alison McCook How Tengion builds autologous bladders Please download the Adobe Flash Player to view this content: Betting on better organs What it takes to make an ...

WHEN the tracheal cancer reappeared, doctors agreed that Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene’s golf ball-sized tumour was inoperable. So one of them suggested a treatment that was rather different: ...

"Organs-on-Chips," added last May to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and winner of the 2015 Design Award from the London Design Museum, have kept their "classical" design ...

Modifying the organ instead of the recipient isn’t a new idea, but it is an important one, said Jeffrey Platt, a transplantation biologist at the University of Michigan Medical School who was not ...

If you met Sangeeta Bhatia at a playground with her two young girls, you probably wouldn't suspect that she's a biomedical engineer with a Ph.D. from MIT and an M.D. from Harvard. Using computer-chip ...