What if doctors could just print a kidney, using cells from the patient, instead of having to find a donor match and hope the patient's body doesn't reject the transplanted kidney?Related video above: ...

Nearly 106,000 Americans are currently on waiting lists for donor organs and 17 die each day while waiting. The holy grail for rising to meet this demand and end this suffering will be the ability to ...

You may not be able to grow bigger muscles out of thin air, but you can 3D print them in microgravity, scientists at ETH ...

Researchers and biotech companies working to revolutionize the field of tissue and organ engineering are making major medical breakthroughs thanks to 3D printing. Surgeons in San Antonio successfully ...

Researchers are printing lego-like blocks to reconstruct bone. Researchers are printing lego-like blocks to reconstruct bone. And they’re leveling-up to print actual human tissue that can be used to ...

Scientists have been fantasizing about the potential of precise 3D bioprinting for years. Just imagine, for example, if doctors could trial therapies on an exact replica of a kidney disease patient’s ...

A new type of 3D-printable material that gets along with the body's immune system, pioneered by a University of Virginia ...

Wearing blue rubber gloves, Molly Dobrow reached into a metal vat of diluted sodium hydroxide and pulled out two dripping-wet models of human organs: a heart and a set of lungs. Made of Elastico, a ...

Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of dollars and can take over a decade. These high monetary and time investments are both strong contributors to today’s skyrocketing health care costs and ...