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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have unveiled a new 3D‑printable material that can be stretched, sutured, and implanted, edging artificial organs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1985, we hypothesized that a living vital organ could be rationally designed and built for human therapy from cells and degradable polymer scaffolding. This was based on only two pieces of previous ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...