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 hydrogels a... 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, engineered b... 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 solid and li... 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 University... 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, the swoop o... 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 include exte... Read more
In a landmark proof-of-concept experiment, Australian researchers have used a handheld 3D printing pen to ‘draw’ human stem cells in freeform patterns with extremely high survival rates. The... Read more
Bioprinting technique creates thick 3D tissues composed of human stem cells and embedded vasculature, with potential applications in drug testing and regenerative medicine A team at the Wyss... Read more
Researchers at U of T Engineering have developed a new way of growing realistic human tissues outside the body. Their “person-on-a-chip” technology, called AngioChip, is a powerful platform... Read more
“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
New method for synthesizing a biocompatible hydrogel could speed up research and development of several promising applications in tissue engineering f you opt to wear soft contact lenses, ch... Read more
A team of researchers from Italy, Israel and the United Kingdom has succeeded in generating mature, functional skeletal muscles in mice using a new approach for tissue engineering. The scien... Read more
Regenerative medicine technique brings surgeons one step closer to helping patients A new study by researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has shown that tissue-engineered small intes... Read more
A new device for building large tissues from living components of three-dimensional microtissues borrows on ideas from electronics manufacturing. The Bio-Pick, Place, and Perfuse (BioP3) is... Read more