POSTS TAGGED AS tissue culture

Making Movies of Cells with a Smartphone

Movies that show cells responding to drugs or toxins can be highly useful to researchers, but this often requires expensive [MORE]

Growing Functional Stomach Tissue in the Lab

Tissue-Engineered Human Stomach Tissues
Quoting directly: “Scientists [at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital] have used pluripotent stem cells to generate human stomach tissues [MORE]

Organovo’s 3-D Printed Liver Patches for Transplants

3-D Printed Liver Tissue
Much of the work in liver tissue regeneration has focused on making micro-organelles for drug testing. But [MORE]

Growing New Brains

Turning Skin Cells nto-Brain Cells-
First off, this piece is not about tissue culturing adult sized brains that might be capable [MORE]

Growing a Midbrain Organoid

A Midbrain Organoid
The 18th century French neuroanatomist, Felix Vicq-d’Azyr ought to be remembered more often than he is, as he [MORE]

Embryonic Stem Cells Create Bone and Heart Tissue

Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Stem cell biologists at Stanford and in Singapore have been able to map the check points at [MORE]

Carbon Nanotubes Support Nerve Growth

Italian scientists placed two segments of spinal cord on a bed of carbon nanotubes, separated by 300 microns, and saw [MORE]

Growing Brain Cells in a Bioreactor

Organ on Chip
A tiny cell culturing device called a “micro sieve electrode array” allows neurons to grow in three dimensions [MORE]

Test Results for Lab-Grown Blood Vessels

Bioengineered Blood Vessels Duke
Bioengineers at Duke and Yale universities have created blood vessels in tissue culture by allowing human vascular [MORE]

A Synthetic Bed for Growing Out Stem Cells

D= Stem Cells Grown on Synthetic Material
In some cases of regenerating tissue from stem cells, scientists grow out the stem [MORE]

Meltblowing, Spunbonding and Carding in Tissue Engineering

Polyester Fabrics as Tissue Scaffold
Do you remember the polyester clothes John Travolta wore in the 1983 movie “Saturday Night Fever?” [MORE]

Lab-Grown Actual Skin

Wnt Signaling Pathway
In experiments with mice, Japanese scientists (RIKEN) have taken cells from mice gums and induced them to become [MORE]

Serotonin-Releasing Neurons Cultured from Skin Cells

Serotonin Releasing Neurons
It would be useful, indeed, to have serotonin-producing cells in tissue culture to test drugs developed to treat [MORE]

Vitrification for Tissue/Organ Preservation

Cryopreservation
Keeping regenerated tissue viable over time is more of a potential problem now, but as this technology arises, labs will [MORE]