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Human Acellular Blood Vessel

The Human Acellular Vessel (HAV) as a vascular conduit for infrainguinal arterial bypass
“The Human Acellular Vessel® (HAV) is a novel [MORE]

Direct Cell Reprogramming for Muscle Regeneration

Bioengineered hybrid muscle fiber
A research collaboration between scientists at Yonsei University in South Korea and MIT sought to address volumetric [MORE]

A Human Acellular Vessel (HAV)

Human Acellular Vessel
Here’s a fascinating new twist on engineered blood vessels.  Researchers at Humacyte, Inc. (Durham, NC), used a biodegradable [MORE]

Organ Chips in Space

Dan Huh and Andrei Georgescu adapting the organ-on-a-chip technology for space
More than half of the Apollo astronauts have experienced bacterial [MORE]

Tissue Chips in Space

Small tissue chips in space
Microfluidic chips that mimic human tissues are well established in medical and pharmaceutical research, but using [MORE]

Removing A and B Antigens for O Type Blood

Gut bacteria may have key to creating universal blood
It has long been known that A type blood cells have one [MORE]

Prosthetic Hand that Plays Piano

Ultrasound Prosthetic Fingers
Georgia Tech engineers have used an ultrasound detector to produce a prosthetic hand with high resolution electromyography. They [MORE]

A Genetically Modified Skin Patch that Monitors Glucose Levels

Skin Patch that Monitors Glucose
In laboratory mice, University of Chicago bioengineers were able to use CRISPR gene editing to modify [MORE]

DNA Robots

LQian Cargo Sorting DNA Robot
In the 64 years that scientists have known about the structure of DNA, enormous knowledge has [MORE]

Engineering a Breathing Lung

Bioengineering Using Functional Vascularized Lung Scaffold
Columbia University bioengineers have created the first functional lung (rodent) with perfusable and healthy vasculature.  [MORE]

Do Stem Cells Look Different?

RU High Resolution Stem Cell
Here’s an interesting proposition—stem cells, as those used for bone marrow transplantation—change shape depending on their [MORE]

Graphene Foam Muscle Scaffolding for Regenerating Tissue

Myoblasts on Graphene Foam
Graphene foam is a compound of graphene oxide and boron nitride that self-assembles into structures resembling chicken [MORE]

Engineered Cartilage Instead of Prostheses

Knee Joint
With $6.7m in funding from the NIH, Case Western Reserve University is creating a Center for Multimodal Evaluation and [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]