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Germans Manufacture Artificial Blood Vessels With a 3-D Printer
Artificial Blood Vessel© Fraunhofer IGBEngineers flush a polymer vessel with cell medium.From intestines to tracheas, tissue engineers are building a handful of new body parts — but progress on larger...
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Wound-Treating Jelly Regenerates Fresh, Scar-Free Skin
Fixing a Burn InjuryPNASTissue engineering and tissue healing have a common complication — it's difficult to build new blood vessels throughout the rebuilt skin, but vasculature is required to keep the...
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Video: 3-D Curling Method Creates Custom Structures From Flat Plastic Sheets
Buckling SurfaceZina Deretsky, National Science FoundationThe polymer swells like a microscopic sponge when exposed to water, but printing "resist dots" in the polymer substrate creates points that...
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Biocompatible Transistors Wired Into Living Human Tissue
Cyborg ScaffoldCharles M. Lieber and Daniel S. KohaneThis is a 3-D reconstructed confocal fluorescence micrograph of a tissue scaffold.A new material developed at Harvard and MIT adds a distinctly...
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How 3-D Printing Body Parts Will Revolutionize Medicine
The Body ShopKevin HandA device the size of an espresso machine quietly whirs to life. The contraption isn't filled with fresh, pungent grounds but, instead, spoonfuls of opaque, sterile goo. Its...
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Vitamin B2 Can Be Used To 3-D Print Medical Implants
A B2 Scaffold For 3-D PrintingRegen. Med. 8(6), 725–738 (2013)Riboflavin, or vitamin B2, a vitamin commonly found in cottage cheese, green veggies and meat, could be used to 3-D print medical implants...
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Self-Healing Muscles Grown In Lab, Implanted In Mice
Muscle fibersDuke UniversityStrands of engineered muscle fiber, stained different colors to observe growth after implantation into a mouse.No this isn't a joke, etc.: Scientists have grown working...
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Four Women Doing Fine After Getting Vagina Implants Made From Their Own Cells
Biodegradable Scaffolding for the Lab-Grown VaginaWake Forest Baptist Medical CenterSo. Yes. A team of doctors is reporting that they grew vaginas in a lab and implanted them in four girls who had...
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Scientists Want To Test Lab-Grown Penises In Humans
A Lab-Made UrethraCourtesy Wake Forest UniversityFrom the same lab as the engineered penis described belowAre you ready? A team of scientists say they're getting ready. They want to implant lab-grown...
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Brilliant 10: Zev Gartner Builds Tissues That Snap Together Like Legos
Zev GartnerAlexander WellsAs a chemistry graduate student, Zev Gartner attended a biology class that changed his career. That’s where he learned that the way cells are physically arranged in tissue can...
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New 3D Printed Material Can Help Regenerate Bones
Science Hyperelastic “bone” grafts have healed rat spines and a monkey’s skull 3D printed implants can prompt new bone to grow in animals.
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Let's use humanoid robots to grow transplant organs
Health Bio-hybrid robots could make better lab-grown tissues By and large, engineered tissues are small, simple, and kinda wimpy. That's because a petri dish is no match for the human body. Read on.
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Video: 3-D Curling Method Creates Custom Structures From Flat Plastic Sheets
Technology A flower petal, a heart and a caterpillar are all feats of self-engineering, morphing and deforming their soft tissues into a specific shape without the help of any scaffold… A flower...
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Biocompatible Transistors Wired Into Living Human Tissue
Technology A new material developed at Harvard and MIT adds a distinctly cybernetic element to the science of tissue engineering. The 3-D mesh of transistors and cells, which can… A new material...
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How 3-D Printing Body Parts Will Revolutionize Medicine
Science Welcome to the age of bioprinting, where the machines we've built are building bits and pieces of us. A device the size of an espresso machine quietly whirs to life. The contraption isn't...
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Vitamin B2 Can Be Used To 3-D Print Medical Implants
Science The essential vitamin found in many foods could be used to create non-toxic scaffolds for custom medical implants. Riboflavin, or vitamin B2, a vitamin commonly found in cottage cheese, green...
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Self-Healing Muscles Grown In Lab, Implanted In Mice
Science The muscles also fluoresce when they contract. No this isn't a joke, etc.: Scientists have grown working muscle fibers in the lab that they were then able to successfully implant into mice....
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Four Women Doing Fine After Getting Vagina Implants Made From Their Own Cells
Science The women have Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, which gives them underdeveloped vaginas and uteruses. So. Yes. A team of doctors is reporting that they grew vaginas in a lab and...
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Scientists Want To Test Lab-Grown Penises In Humans
Science Manmade man parts, in case you've lost part of yours to injury, illness, or a congenital condition Are you ready? A team of scientists say they're getting ready. They want to implant lab-grown...
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Brilliant 10: Zev Gartner Builds Tissues That Snap Together Like Legos
Health He's also changing the way we understand cancer As a chemistry graduate student, Zev Gartner attended a biology class that changed his career. That’s where he learned that the way cells are...
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