Bone tissue engineering (BTE) has emerged as a critical solution for repairing large bone defects caused by trauma, infection ...

In recent years, there have been tremendous advances in tissue engineering, the field of biomaterials research and development that combines living cells with 3D microstructures and biologically ...

Losing a large amount of soft tissue from an injury or cancer may require reconstructive surgery. These surgeries typically rely on a structural framework that holds cells or tissues together made ...

Engineering functional cellular tissue components holds great promise in regenerative medicine. Collagen I, a key scaffolding material in bodily tissues, presents challenges in controlling its ...

Angiogenesis is a process of forming hierarchical vascular networks in living tissues. Its complexity makes the controlled generation of blood vessels in laboratory conditions a highly challenging ...

About 25 million people in the U.S.—roughly eight out of 100—are diagnosed with asthma. Allergens, air pollution, extreme ...

Tissue engineering harnesses the principles of cell biology, materials science and engineering to restore, maintain or enhance the function of damaged tissues. Central to this discipline is the use of ...

Organ failure impacts millions of patients each year and costs hundreds of billions of US Dollars. Over the last 30 years, scientists have utilized a combination of tools, methods, and molecules of ...

These fields aim to facilitate healing and restore lost function in damaged or diseased tissues and organs by integrating scaffolds, cells, and biological signaling molecules. This combination aims to ...

Damage to the liver in patients developing end-stage liver disease has become too severe for the organ’s normally extraordinary regenerative capacity to repair or compensate for that damage. Once this ...

Anthony Atala at Harvard Medical School Cartilage; Jim Burns at Genzyme Cartilage; Antonios Mikos at Rice U. Bone and cardiovascular tissue; David Mooney at U. Michigan Bone and cartilage Every year, ...