If I Ate Lab-Grown Human Tissue or Organs, Would I Be Considered a Cannibal?
Bowl of Tissues Superstock; Getty Images 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...
View ArticleIn Flesh-Engineering Breakthrough, Lab-Grown Tissue Can Finally Grow Its Own...
Synthetic Blood Vessels two types of cells, which were tagged with fluorescent dye, organized themselves into a functioning capillary networks within 72 hours. Rice University Tissue engineers have...
View ArticleNow In Production: Human Skin Grown In a Robot-Controlled German Skin Factory
Skin Scaffold A matrix with a vascular system, or BioVaSc (biological vascularized scaffold), on which skin cells can be cultivated at the Fraunhofer skin factory. Der Spiegel Back in 2009, we told...
View ArticleCornell Researchers Grow A Realistic Bio-Engineered Human Ear
Bio-Engin-Ear Lawrence Bonassar displays his 3-D printed ear. Lindsay France/Cornell University Photography Researchers at Cornell University have managed to fabricate a bioengineered human ear that...
View ArticleIf I Ate Lab-Grown Human Tissue or Organs, Would I Be Considered a Cannibal?
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…
View ArticleIn Flesh-Engineering Breakthrough, Lab-Grown Tissue Can Finally Grow Its Own...
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…
View ArticleNow In Production: Human Skin Grown In a Robot-Controlled German Skin Factory
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…
View ArticleCornell Researchers Grow A Realistic Bio-Engineered Human Ear
Researchers at Cornell University have managed to fabricate a bioengineered human ear that looks and acts like a natural one. They hope to be able to give children with a…
View ArticleHow NASA's Microbe Detection Technology May Speed Up Tissue Transplants
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 Colorado-based nonprofit that…
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