Blood vessels are like big-city highways; full of curves, branches, merges, and congestion. Yet for years, lab models replicated vessels like straight, simple roads. To better capture the complex ...

Researchers from the King's College London School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, along with partners at the University of Michigan, The Institut national de la santé et de la recherche ...

Tissue engineers are finding ways to grow living organs and tissues from cells, with the aim of replacing diseased and ...

Artificial tissues can mimic muscle, liver, kidney and skin, but they still face a basic survival problem: cells need blood ...

With the aid of physical forces—in this case, sound—it is possible to actively steer the formation of engineered tissue. For ...

Growing functional human organs outside the body is a long-sought "holy grail" of organ transplantation medicine that remains elusive. New research from Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically ...

Lab-grown organs for transplant are one step closer thanks to a technique for making artificial blood vessels using 3D printers and liquid metal. One challenge in developing organs in the lab is to ...