14-02-10 Getting in the right shape might be just as important in a biology lab as a gym. Shape is thought to play an important role in the effectiveness of cells grown to repair or replace damaged tissue in the body. To help design new structures that enabl...

13-06-16 Mammals possess the remarkable ability to regenerate a lost fingertip, including the nail, nerves and even bone. In humans, an amputated fingertip can sprout back in as little as two months, a phenomenon that has remained poorly understood until now...

13-05-08 A Wayne State University researcher has successfully tested a technique that can lead to more effective use of nanoparticles as a drug delivery system. Joshua Reineke, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences in the Eugene Applebaum Col...

12-02-13 Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new method for creating scaffolds（支架） for tissue engineering applications, providing an alternative that is more flexible and less time-intensive than current technology. A paper describing...

11-09-14 Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a new technique that uses a single UV laser pulse to zap（攻击，打败） away biological tissue at multiple points simultaneously, a method that could help scientists study the mechanical forces at w...

10-08-20 The first successful report of using cell-depleted lung as a natural growth matrix（矩阵，模型） for generating new rat lung from embryonic stem cells is presented in a breakthrough article in Tissue Engineering, Part A, a peer-reviewed journal publ...

10-07-22 New research, published in the journal Development, by Dr. Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, professor of Pharmacology Physiology and director of the newly formed GW Institute for Neuroscience, and his colleagues have identified the stem cells that generate...

10-06-25 Yale University engineers have for the first time created 3D models of whole intact（完整的） mouse organs, a feat（功绩，壮举） they accomplished using fluorescence microscopy（荧光显微法） . The team reports its findings in the May/June issue of t...

10-06-25 A Yale University-led team of scientists reports that it has achieved an important first step in regenerating fully functional lung tissue that can exchange gas, which is the key role of the lungs. Their paper appears in the June 24 issue of Science...

10-05-14 Tissue engineering has long held promise for building new organs to replace damaged livers, blood vessels（血管） and other body parts. However, one major obstacle is getting cells grown in a lab dish to form 3-D shapes instead of flat layers. Resea...