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A Synthetic Ovary Allows Sterilized Mice to Give Birth

Order of Changes in Ovary
In fertility studies of mice, bioengineers at Northwestern University have determined that the architecture of a [MORE]

Lab Grown Lungs Successfully Transplanted in Mice

Mice
Using a biodegradable scaffold, bioengineers at the University of Michigan have successfully grown miniature lung tissue from human stem cells [MORE]

First 3-D Heart-on-a-Chip

3-D Heart-on-a-Chip
Quoting directly: “Harvard University researchers have made what they are touting as the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated [MORE]

Out-of-the-Box Implantable Xenografts

BVWG2 Technology
Animal tissues can be cleaned and engineered to provide implantable xerographs for such surgical needs as hernia repairs, abdominal [MORE]

“Off-the-Shelf” Implantable Artificial Blood Vessels

New Born Lamb
Eight years ago, Doris Taylor at the University of Minnesota grew a beating rat heart from a decellularized [MORE]

“Person-on-a-Chip”

There’s a fine art in making miniature human organs. Tissue engineers at the University of Toronto have shown how they [MORE]

3-D Printing of Thick Vascularized Tissue

Tissue Engineering
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have used 3-D bioprinting to create “thick vascularized tissue constructs composed of human stem [MORE]

Engineering New Intestines

Tissue Engineering
In yet another amazing story from Wake Forest University’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine, bioengineers cultured smooth muscle and nerve [MORE]

Self-Assembling Protein Fibers 

Creating a Self-Assembling Protein
“Amyloid” brings to mind a rogue’s gallery of human afflictions, from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s to atherosclerosis and [MORE]

3-D Printing of Tracheal Cartilage

Makerbot 3D Printed Trachea Cartilage
The trachea, a windpipe that connects the lungs and throat, is a cartilage structure that can [MORE]

Artificial Blood Vessels

Tissue Engineering Vascular Graft
3-D printing is not the only means for making artificial structures; another technique is electro-spinning, which is [MORE]

Artificial Organs: “Pick, Place, Perfuse”

BioP3
If you have a mind’s-eye vision of automated circuit board assembly in the electronics industry, you can imagine how bioengineers [MORE]

Bioprinting Vascular Networks

Artificial Vascular Networks
Before bioprinting can turn the dream of lab-made human organs into reality, the problem of creating capillaries in [MORE]

Micro-Robotic Tissue Engineering

3-D Tissue Printer
Quoting directly from this piece: “The presented approach uses untethered magnetic micro-robotic coding for precise construction of [MORE]