The field of organ transplantation has witnessed significant strides in recent years, offering renewed hope for individuals suffering from organ failure. These advancements address two key challenges: ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center announced it received a five-year federal grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for ...

Shankar Subramaniam is the lead author of the taskforce, distinguished professor in the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at the University of California San Diego. Bridging precision ...

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 ...

Growing functional human organs outside the body is a long-sought “holy grail” of organ transplantation medicine that remains elusive. New research from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically ...

Traditional-tissue engineering approaches (Panel A) seed cells onto a three-dimensional biomaterial scaffold that serves as a framework for new tissue development (i). The scaffold degrades as new ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Scientists at the Wyss Institute are developing an origami-based system for engineered organs. The inflatable origami structure is made of ...

Researchers and biotech companies working to revolutionize the field of tissue and organ engineering are making major medical breakthroughs thanks to 3D printing. Surgeons in San Antonio successfully ...

Organ Shortages and the Case for On-Demand Bioprinting. Organ donations are a key medical tool keeping millions of people ...