IU Health has a new lab for 3D-printing model organs. The models help clinicians plan surgeries, communicate with patients ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- The science of helping people re-grow body parts is becoming more real than ever, and it's the subject of a conference happening right now in Berkeley. It's not all about ...

Picture this: a 3D printer that can build a viable human organ at the push of a button. Sounds futuristic, but Dallas researchers are aiming to make that a reality. UT Southwestern Medical Center ...

Across the United States, the brutal math of organ failure has barely budged for decades: demand keeps rising while supply stays painfully finite. Now a wave of 3D bioprinting breakthroughs is turning ...

TL;DR: Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have developed a groundbreaking system combining 3D printing and lab-grown organoids from patient stem cells to create functional, genetically ...

At present, fully functioning 3D printed organs to be used in surgery do not exist, although considerable progress has been made. In a futurist article, Kristopher Sturgis of QMed has raised the ...

Finally, the printed organ is placed in a bioreactor, where it matures into functional tissue that can be transplanted into a living organism. UTSW will be among the teams attempting to achieve what ...

Bioprinting holds the promise of engineering organs on demand. Now, researchers have solved one of the major bottlenecks—how to create the fine networks of blood vessels needed to keep organs alive.

Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh are working to develop 3D-printed organic tissue models that mimic the behavior of living organs. Online cover of Science Advances, April issue. A ...

A Missouri engineering professor has developed a process to use off-the-shelf 3D printers to make devices that can test medicines and treatments on tissues and cells. Medical research includes a lot ...

Because of the simple laws of supply and demand, many people every year die waiting for an organ that might’ve saved their life. While advanced perfusion and xenotransplantation breakthroughs could ...