Imagine balancing a ruler upright in the palm of your hand: you need to continually monitor its angle and make several small movements and changes to keep it from tipping over. It would take a lot of ...

Someday, doctors would like to grow limbs and other body tissue for soldiers who have lost arms in battle, children who need a new heart or liver, and many other people with critical needs. Scientists ...

Michael Helmrath, MD, MS, surgical director of the Intestinal Rehabilitation Program at Cincinnati Children's, describes how researchers have successfully grown human intestinal tissue in mice, ...

Within our bodies, cells survive by being chatty: They rely on a network of blood vessels to communicate with one another and receive vital nutrients. Replicating this cell crosstalk in a lab is less ...

Welcome to the Tissue Instructive Materials (TIMs) lab at Drexel University! The focus of the laboratory is on the development, application, and understanding of biomaterials which interact with ...

In laboratory experiments, researchers have produced ear cartilage that remains form-stable in animal models. Only one ...