A 3D model accurately mimicking the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in a laboratory environment has been successfully developed by research teams led by Professor Jinah Jang from the Departments of ...

Cerebrovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and stroke remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A common feature of these diseases is vascular stenosis, i.e., the narrowing of ...

Lab-grown organs are a long-time 'holy grail' of organ engineering that has yet to be achieved, but new research has brought that goal a big step closer to reality using a new 3D-printing method ...

There are more than 100,000 people on organ transplant lists in the U.S., some of whom will wait years to receive one – and some may not survive the wait. Even with a good match, there is a chance ...

To explore possible treatments for various diseases, either animal models or human cell cultures are usually used first; however, animal models do not always mimic human diseases well, and cultures ...

Researchers at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital are utilizing 3D printing to fabricate new blood vessels from human cells, according to STAT. The 3D-printed blood vessels are customizable per ...

A computational model that could rapidly design a blood vessel network for any 3D-printed organ may take us a step closer to transplanting artificial livers, kidneys or hearts without the need for a ...

Islet Transplantation with Blood Vessel Cells Shows Promise to Treat Type 1 Diabetes Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the ...

Growing functional human organs outside the body is a long-sought “holy grail” of organ transplantation medicine that remains elusive. New research from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically ...