Your organs are constantly talking to each other in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Tapping into these communication ...

The demand for tissue and organ replacement following tissue damage (eg, severe burns) or diseases (eg, cardiomyopathy) is expanding, and, while the number of patients suffering from organ failure is ...

Researching are throwing lots of ideas at the wall to see what sticks, but the U.S. just put some serious cash behind the idea of 3D bioprinting.

The funding comes from the Personalized Regenerative Immunocompetent Nanotechnology Tissue (PRINT) program at ARPA-H, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The PRINT ...

Biomedical engineers have developed a silk-based, ultrathin membrane that can be used in organ-on-a-chip models to better mimic the natural environment of cells and tissues within the body. When used ...

A global genetics study of over 2.5 million people shows Type 2 diabetes is driven by tissue-specific biological processes ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones—from fish and frogs to ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that an ...

Proteins circulating in the blood could accelerate the aging of blood vessels and increase silent cardiac risk.

A microscopic view of Kupffer’s vesicle (KV), a tiny, fluid-filled, balloon-shaped structure in zebrafish embryos that plays a crucial role in establishing body symmetry and guiding the placement of ...

This is National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week. Nowadays, it seems every week has some designation or another, but none is more important than this. The point is that thousands and thousands ...

When people sign up to be organ donors, they often think about hearts, lungs and kidneys. But there’s another part of that decision that can quietly change — and even save — many more lives: tissue ...