He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ ...

Imagine seeing your body from the inside out, a hidden world where more than 30 trillion cells are constantly renewing and regenerating to keep you alive. Men typically have around 36 trillion cells, ...

Imagine cells navigating through a complex maze, guided by chemical signals and the physical landscape of their environment.

Cardiovascular disease and kidney disease are two of the most urgent issues in global public health. In the United States ...

Similar to testing a car, a team of researchers at UBC Okanagan has been test-driving a number of mechanical heart valves (MHV)—and the one designed in their own lab appears to outperform the others.

For over 25 years, our group has used regenerative medicine strategies to develop improved biomaterials for use in congenital heart surgery. Among other applications, we developed a tissue-engineered ...

Engineers from Texas A&M University (TAMU) have developed a groundbreaking tiny chip that mimics real human blood vessels, ...

Discover how a 3D printed tracheostomy tube revolutionized care for a young patient with tracheal erosion at the Mayo Clinic.

UW Medicine advances human tissue modelling with 3D printing. The device is small enough to fit on a fingertip.

Multiple teams have made substantial preclinical and clinical progress toward these goals, but further research and development is warranted to realize the potential futures of cardiovascular tissue ...

Scientists at the University of Washington and UW Medicine have created a tiny 3D-printed device that could change the way ...