“Polyol-Silk Bioink Formulations as Two-Part Room-Temperature Curable Materials for 3D Printing” Advances in 3-D printing have led to new ways to make bone and some other relativ... Read more
Engineers at the University of Toronto just made assembling functional heart tissue as easy as fastening your shoes. The team has created a biocompatible scaffold that allows sheets of beati... Read more
No longer just fantastical fodder for sci-fi buffs, cyborg technology is bringing us tangible progress toward real-life electronic skin, prosthetics and ultraflexible circuits. Now taking th... Read more
Innovative strategy to facilitate organ repair A significant breakthrough could revolutionize surgical practice and regenerative medicine. A team led by Ludwik Leibler from the Laboratoire M... Read more
Potentially transformative ways to use specific types of light for more even complex and direct manipulation of individual cells In medicine, light therapy is currently used to treat seasona... Read more
Inducing biological tissue damage with an atmospheric pressure plasma source could open the door to many applications in medicine Plasma medicine is a new and rapidly developing area of medi... Read more
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have developed a new substance which could simplify the manufacture of cell therapy in the pioneering world of regenerative medicine. Cell therapy... Read more
The work represents a major step toward a longstanding goal of tissue engineers: creating human tissue constructs realistic enough to test drug safety and effectiveness. A new bioprinting me... Read more
Pancreatic cancer is a particularly devastating disease. At least 94 percent of patients will die within five years, and in 2013 it was ranked as one of the top 10 deadliest cancers. Routine... Read more
Scientists believe they can develop drugs which will stop organs failing meaning a transplant isn’t necessary A scientific breakthrough into the way human tissue is left scarred could... Read more
Developing an efficient way to freeze and store living tissues could transform many aspects of medical care and research Developing an efficient way to freeze and store living tissues could... Read more
Researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have managed to regenerate the retina thanks to neuronal reprogramming. There are currently several lines of research th... Read more
MEDICAL IMAGING From microscopes to nuclear imaging scanners, imaging technology is growing ever more vital for the world’s hospitals, whether for the diagnosis of illness or for resea... Read more
Organovo announced that it has succeeded in using the device to create three-dimensional functioning human livers Back in 2009, we heard about a 3D bio-printer that had been developed throug... Read more
A custom-built programmable 3D printer can create materials with several of the properties of living tissues, Oxford University scientists have demonstrated. The new type of material consist... Read more
