New Organ

Research suggests some parts of the body age slower than others. Interesting implications for organ engineering and transplantation!

Why your organs might reach 100 even if you don't Research suggests some parts of the body age faster than others to the point that they even outlive their owners. Could understanding this better help us to live longer?

Check out this exciting collaboration between NASA researchers and a Vascular Tissue Challenge team on 3D bioprinting.

Indianapolis VA Medical Center and NASA To Explore 3D Bioprinting for Healthcare - 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing Exposure to space radiation, gravity fields, contaminated atmospheres, are all part of the hostile environment astronauts encounter beyond Earth’s orbit. As they transition from one gravity field to another, the...

Rice University's 3D Bioprinting group just published a major step forward in printing solid organs! https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6439/458

They're also competing for the $500,000 Vascular Tissue Challenge, now in its final year to win the prize!

Multivascular networks and functional intravascular topologies within biocompatible hydrogels In air-breathing vertebrates, the circulatory and pulmonary systems contain separate networks of channels that intertwine but do not intersect with each other. Recreating such structures within cell-compatible materials has been a major challenge; even a single vasculature system can be a burden to....

Could this newly discovered DNA switch hold the key for human regeneration?

Harvard University uncovers DNA switch that controls genes for whole-body regeneration Humans may one day have the ability to regrow limbs after scientists at Harvard University uncovered the DNA switch that controls genes for whole-body regeneration.