The team’s new device is a small plastic chip whose specially designed chambers are filled with human blood stem cells and the surrounding support cells with which they interact in a hydrogel to mimic ...

Hidden within our bones, marrow sustains life by producing billions of blood cells daily, from oxygen-carrying red cells to ...

The School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Perelman School of Medicine, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia collaborated to micro-engineer a chip that models human bone marrow. Credit: ...

Scott Worthen, an attending physician at CHOP, Professor Emeritus in Pediatrics at PSOM and the paper's other senior author, proposed developing a model of human bone marrow and sending it to the ...

Stem cells can fight disease from the inside out. But spas and clinics are selling treatments that are unproven, expensive, ...

Whether you are a competitive athlete or an older adult, strong bones are essential—not only for movement, but also for ...

The investment comes as the FDA is pushing drug developers to phase out animal testing in some of the biologic treatments ...