If I Ate Lab-Grown Human Tissue or Organs, Would I Be Considered a Cannibal?
Bowl of TissuesSuperstock; Getty ImagesWe realize you're asking hypothetically. If you're looking to indulge in the other, other white meat but can't stand the idea of society branding you a cannibal,...
View ArticleIn Flesh-Engineering Breakthrough, Lab-Grown Tissue Can Finally Grow Its Own...
Synthetic Blood VesselsRice Universitytwo types of cells, which were tagged with fluorescent dye, organized themselves into a functioning capillary networks within 72 hours.Tissue engineers have come a...
View ArticleNow In Production: Human Skin Grown In a Robot-Controlled German Skin Factory
Skin ScaffoldDer SpiegelA matrix with a vascular system, or BioVaSc (biological vascularized scaffold), on which skin cells can be cultivated at the Fraunhofer skin factory.Back in 2009, we told you...
View ArticleCornell Researchers Grow A Realistic Bio-Engineered Human Ear
Bio-Engin-EarLindsay France/Cornell University PhotographyLawrence Bonassar displays his 3-D printed ear.Researchers at Cornell University have managed to fabricate a bioengineered human ear that looks...
View ArticleHow NASA's Microbe Detection Technology May Speed Up Tissue Transplants
Mining for MicrobesAlloSourceAlloSource employees work in the microbiology labWhat do the Curiosity rover and a bone allograft have in common? They both have got to be super duper clean.That’s why...
View ArticleIf I Ate Lab-Grown Human Tissue or Organs, Would I Be Considered a Cannibal?
Science We realize you’re asking hypothetically. If you’re looking to indulge in the other, other white meat but can’t stand the idea of society branding you a cannibal, this might… We realize you’re...
View ArticleIn Flesh-Engineering Breakthrough, Lab-Grown Tissue Can Finally Grow Its Own...
Science Tissue engineers have come a long way in recent years, fabricating human tissue Lego blocks, artificial kidney cells, sight-restoring bio-synthetic corneas and more. But no… Tissue engineers...
View ArticleNow In Production: Human Skin Grown In a Robot-Controlled German Skin Factory
Technology Back in 2009, we told you about the skin factory concept at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology, where scientists hoped to mass-produce… Back in 2009, we...
View ArticleCornell Researchers Grow A Realistic Bio-Engineered Human Ear
Science After three months growing in the lab, it looks and acts more like a natural ear than any previous attempt. Researchers at Cornell University have managed to fabricate a bioengineered human...
View ArticleHow NASA's Microbe Detection Technology May Speed Up Tissue Transplants
Science Tissue recipients may soon benefit from space travel. What do the Curiosity rover and a bone allograft have in common? They both have got to be super duper clean. That’s why AlloSource, a...
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