Organ donors can save lives, for example, those of patients with kidney failure. Unfortunately, there are too few donors, and ...

Just one organ donor can save up to eight lives and improve the lives of 75 others. If you have ever considered becoming an ...

VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The global 3D bioprinting market size is expected to reach USD 2,687.8 Million in 2027 at a CAGR of 20.7% during the forecast period, according to the ...

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 ...

For Joseph Vacanti, the quest to build new organs began after watching the death of yet another child. In 1983, the young surgeon was put in charge of a liver transplantation program at Boston ...

3D bioprinting combines cells, growth factors, and biomaterials to fabricate biomedical parts. The process requires special “bio-inks,” often made of materials like alginate or gelatin. A key goal is ...

A second approach to providing a sufficient supply of organs for transplantation is genetically engineering animals — most often, pigs (because they are an appropriate size) — so that their ...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences announced Thursday that it has received two grants totaling $50,000 from the Arvest Foundation to support organ engineering and gene therapy. The grants ...

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 ...