Researchers from EPFL and the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands have developed an extremely fast optical method for sculpting complex shapes in stem-cell-laden h... Read more
CMU researchers have published in Science a new 3D bioprinting method that brings the field of tissue engineering one step closer to being able to 3D print a full-sized, adult huma... Read more
Engineered tissues and organs have been grown with various degrees of success in labs for many years. Many of them have used a scaffolding approach where cells are seeded onto biod... Read more
Twisted fibers coated with living cells could assist healing of injured muscles and tendons. The human body is held together by an intricate cable system of tendons and muscles, en... Read more
Patching up a heart needs the help of tiny blood vessels. Aligning dense vascular structures in engineered cardiac patches can help patients recover from a heart attack. A team led... Read more
Biomedical engineers cut post-processing steps to make electrospun nanofibers for wound healing and improve 3D-matrices for biological tissues. They speed up prototyping using ide... Read more
Tissue engineering is a medical solution that uses living cells to repair or replace structural tissue, such as blood vessels, bone, cartilage, etc. Polymeric hydrogels, in both so... Read more
Scientists have developed a biological system which lets cells form a desired shape by moulding their surrounding material – initially creating the world’s first self-c... Read more
Living organisms expand and contract soft tissues to achieve complex, 3D movements and functions, but replicating those movements with man-made materials has proven challenging. A... Read more
RMIT biomedical engineers have successfully produced a 3D material that mimics nature to transform cells into muscle. The researchers have for the first time incorporated the natur... Read more
Researchers develop mathematical techniques for designing shape-shifting shells Nature has a way of making complex shapes from a set of simple growth rules. The curve of a petal, t... Read more
Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State’s College of Engineering have developed a new technology, Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), that can gene... Read more
Nanoengineers 3D print lifelike, functional blood vessel network that could pave the way toward artificial organs and regenerative therapies In the past decade, engineers at the Un... Read more
Researchers Can Grow Functional Stomach and Intestinal Tissues to Study Diseases, New Drugs Scientists report in Nature using pluripotent stem cells to generate human stomach tissu... Read more
A new technique, developed at EPFL, combines microfluidics and lasers to guide cells in 3D space, overcoming major limitations to tissue engineering. Future medicine is bound to in... Read more
