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Heart Patches of Living Stem Cells
Heart patch
Until heart doctors have a successful strategy for injecting stem cells directly into cardiac tissue to repair damage, this [MORE]
Automated Chemical Synthesizer
Coffee machine synthesizer
For more than a quarter century, synthetic chemists have imagined how an automated reaction machine could take the [MORE]
Graphene Microflakes to Stop Seizures
Graphene flakes mitigate seizures
This piece mainly suggests what might be done for brain disorders in the future rather than what [MORE]
“Hair Farms”
Hair follicle
Using a 3D printer to make plastic molds for skin tissue, bioengineers at Columbia University added a “cocktail of [MORE]
3D Printed Ear without Scaffold
3D printed ear without scaffold
Most tissue regenerative strategies rely on a scaffold into which cells stimulated to grow. One difficulty [MORE]
A Hair-Sized Lung Probe
Lung alveolus
In an extremely fine optical fiber, Scottish scientists devised a tool for assessing lung disease deep in the organ. [MORE]
Micropatterning Tissues
Micropatterning tissues
“All micropatterning techniques involve three basic steps. . . : Generation of a pattern of controlled surface adhesiveness; Seeding [MORE]