POSTS TAGGED AS tissue culture

Optical Tomography Bioprinting

Volumetric bioprinting process
Bioprinting today is performed as an additive manufacturing process—layer by layer.  Researchers at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) now show [MORE]

Keeping Tissue Alive in the Lab

Heart slices in biomimetic culture system
Researchers at the University of Louisville have developed a culture system that can keep slices [MORE]

Making Closer Contact between Sensors and Cells

Floating and flexible cellular sensor
Tissue culture researchers at Purdue University are using an ultra-buoyant polymer scaffold with electrophysiological sensors to [MORE]

Gluing Stem Cells

Welding stem cells
In an article titled “Artificial Cell Membrane Binding Thrombin Constructs Drive in situ hydrogel formation,” cell biologists at [MORE]

A Blood Vessels Chip

Chip with blood vessels
This piece lacks the essential “nutrient” details in growing blood capillaries in a biochip, but it does [MORE]

Bioengineered Lungs Transplanted into Pigs

UTMB researchers transplant bioengineered lung
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston) have shown that they could, in pigs, [MORE]

Dental Value of Hydrogel that Stimulates Angiogenesis/Dentinogenesis

Root canal hydrogel
Root canal treatment kills a tooth.  But researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have demonstrated how [MORE]

Photonic Biosensor Monitors Oxygen in Organs-on-a-Chip

Biosensor
What tissues of the body do depends on the level of oxygen concentration, and different tissues have various oxygen levels.  [MORE]

Computing Cell Fate

Computational models to sort out the chaos medium
Subtle differences in transcription factors determine cell behavior in, say, a heart cell [MORE]

How to Make Organoids

How to make a brain organoid
Betty Crocker couldn’t have been clearer: “To grow brain organoids, researchers have traditionally cultured human [MORE]

“Cell Sliding” in Organ Regeneration

Chiral cell sliding drives left-right asymmetric organ twisting
Developmental biologists at Osaka University recently announced an important finding relative to organ regeneration: [MORE]

Color Blindness and Blood Vessel Formation

Cone cell
Achromatopsia (aka cone rod dystrophy) is a form of colorblindness that can be partial or total. In studying the [MORE]

How New Blood Vessels Form

Endothelial cells
Last week, MAIN had a piece about an Indiana University process for growing stem cells into endothelial cells that [MORE]

Regenerating Livers in Organoid Size

View of a Human Liver Dorsally with Gallbladder
Wake Forest University’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine has created liver organoids that mimic [MORE]