Spare Parts for Humans: Tissue Engineers Aim for Lab-Grown Limbs, Lungs and More
A new research breakthrough has enabled scientists to grow human tissue to repair or replace organs, and someday, maybe even limbs. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports.Be advised: Some of the...
View ArticleHuman Muscle, Regrown on Animal Scaffolding
In the months after a roadside bomb in Afghanistan blew off part of his left thigh, Sgt. Ron Strang wondered if he would ever be able to walk normally again. The explosion and subsequent rounds of...
View ArticleStem cell 'sticky spots' recreated by scientists
Randomly distributed sticky spots which are integral to the development of stem cells by maximising adhesion and acting as internal scaffolding have been artificially recreated by experts from the...
View ArticleResearchers Develop Injectable Gel to Repair Damaged Hearts
People who suffer heart attacks are at increased risk of having a second and potentially fatal occurrence because of the damage the heart attack does to cardiac muscle tissue. Now scientists at the...
View ArticleTissue engineering: How to build a heart
With thousands of people in need of heart transplants, researchers are trying to grow new organs. Doris Taylor doesn't take it as an insult when people call her Dr Frankenstein. It was actually one of...
View ArticleSpare Parts for Humans: Tissue Engineers Aim for Lab-Grown Limbs, Lungs and More
A new research breakthrough has enabled scientists to grow human tissue to repair or replace organs, and someday, maybe even limbs. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports.Be advised: Some of the...
View ArticleHuman Muscle, Regrown on Animal Scaffolding
In the months after a roadside bomb in Afghanistan blew off part of his left thigh, Sgt. Ron Strang wondered if he would ever be able to walk normally again. The explosion and subsequent rounds of...
View ArticleStem cell 'sticky spots' recreated by scientists
Randomly distributed sticky spots which are integral to the development of stem cells by maximising adhesion and acting as internal scaffolding have been artificially recreated by experts from the...
View ArticleResearchers Develop Injectable Gel to Repair Damaged Hearts
People who suffer heart attacks are at increased risk of having a second and potentially fatal occurrence because of the damage the heart attack does to cardiac muscle tissue. Now scientists at the...
View ArticleTissue engineering: How to build a heart
With thousands of people in need of heart transplants, researchers are trying to grow new organs. Doris Taylor doesn't take it as an insult when people call her Dr Frankenstein. It was actually one of...
View ArticleSpare Parts for Humans: Tissue Engineers Aim for Lab-Grown Limbs, Lungs and More
A new research breakthrough has enabled scientists to grow human tissue to repair or replace organs, and someday, maybe even limbs. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports.Be advised: Some of the...
View ArticleHuman Muscle, Regrown on Animal Scaffolding
In the months after a roadside bomb in Afghanistan blew off part of his left thigh, Sgt. Ron Strang wondered if he would ever be able to walk normally again. The explosion and subsequent rounds of...
View ArticleStem cell 'sticky spots' recreated by scientists
Randomly distributed sticky spots which are integral to the development of stem cells by maximising adhesion and acting as internal scaffolding have been artificially recreated by experts from the...
View ArticleResearchers Develop Injectable Gel to Repair Damaged Hearts
People who suffer heart attacks are at increased risk of having a second and potentially fatal occurrence because of the damage the heart attack does to cardiac muscle tissue. Now scientists at the...
View ArticleTissue engineering: How to build a heart
With thousands of people in need of heart transplants, researchers are trying to grow new organs. Doris Taylor doesn't take it as an insult when people call her Dr Frankenstein. “It was actually one of...
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