New Biological Scaffold Home, Sweet Home, for Stem Cells
Our cells don’t live in a vacuum. They are surrounded by a complex, nurturing matrix … more
Tissue Engineering
An essential step toward printing living tissues
New method enables engineers to print tissue constructs with blood vessels A new bioprinting method … more
Researchers Develop a Dynamic Model of Tissue Failure
The idea of growing replacement tissue to repair an organ, or to swap it out … more
Researchers create ‘soft robotic’ devices using water-based gels
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating devices out … more
Low levels of toxic proteins linked to brain diseases
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s could be better understood thanks to insight into proteins linked … more
Engineering cartilage replacements
A lab discovery is a step toward implantable replacement cartilage, holding promise for knees, shoulders, ears and noses damaged by osteoarthritis, sports injuries and accidents.
Self-assembling sheets of mesenchymal stem cells permeated with tiny be…
