Our bodies are not like LEGO blocks or computers because we cannot swap out our parts in the living room while watching television. Organ transplants and cosmetic surgery are currently our options for ...

Urethral strictures pose a significant clinical challenge, impacting millions of individuals worldwide and often requiring complex and invasive treatments. In recent years, there has been growing ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Aug. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Miromatrix Medical Inc. (NASDAQ: MIRO), a life sciences company pioneering a novel technology for bioengineering fully transplantable organs to ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. A researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital has successfully grown the world’s first biolimb, The ...

Currently, recipients of arm or leg transplants need to take immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of their lives, in order to keep the donated parts from being rejected. If we could grow our own ...

Researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory. By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists grew functioning heart tissue by taking dead rat and pig hearts and ...

Schematics of the experimental design and objectives in the perfusion decellularization assessment. Decellularization of tissues for regenerative medicine applications, such as cartilage repair, is ...

To help prevent possible complications such as nonunion at large fracture sites, researchers have developed a cartilage matrix that mimics the early stages of repair and provides the essential ...

Over a period of 52 hours, infusion of a detergent solution removes cells from a rat forelimb, leaving behind the cell-free matrix scaffolding onto which new tissues can be regenerated. For more on ...