The breakthrough approach could lead to successful, long-term organ transplants, bringing science fiction closer to becoming medical reality. Cryopreservation, the process of preserving biological ...

This Perspectives article describes the current status of the field of liver-tissue engineering and outlines some of the challenges being encountered. Some of the novel solutions being developed to ...

As 22 Americans die each day waiting for a transplant, researchers are trying to regrow or build new organs to remedy scarce organ donations. An Austin-based nonprofit, Solving Organ Shortage — or SOS ...

This stripped-down pig heart might not heal a bad romance, but it could one day be a miracle for someone with a bum ticker. At Mass General’s Ott Laboratory for Organ Engineering and Regeneration (see ...

Last year there were about 115,000 people on the transplant list and almost 35,000 transplants performed. That is a huge mismatch in demand versus supply. About 20 people die a day because they cannot ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona have uncovered a previously unknown population of circulating immune cells that play ...

If you met Sangeeta Bhatia at a playground with her two young girls, you probably wouldn't suspect that she's a biomedical engineer with a Ph.D. from MIT and an M.D. from Harvard. Using computer-chip ...

There are 113,237 people in the United States waiting for an organ. About eighteen of them will die today because they won’t get one, according to the US Government’s organ donor website. If science ...

Listen with Speechify 0:00 1:00 By Alison McCook How Tengion builds autologous bladders Please download the Adobe Flash Player to view this content: Betting on better organs What it takes to make an ...

"Organs-on-Chips," added last May to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and winner of the 2015 Design Award from the London Design Museum, have kept their "classical" design ...

This stripped-down pig heart might not heal a bad romance, but it could one day be a miracle for someone with a bum ticker. At Mass General’s Ott Laboratory for Organ Engineering and Regeneration (see ...