tissue-engineering

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine is based on three key requirements working together: signals from body tissues and organs, responding stem cells, and scaffolds.

Heart disease can change the genetic structure of heart cells. Understanding the role that mechanical forces play in these changes could lead to improvements in artificial tissue design.

A bioinspired material, developed by scientists at Imperial College London, accelerates wound healing and the repair of human skin.

The study’s MIT co-authors include Sina Kheiri, Jessica Shah, Shashaank Venkatesh, and Roger Kamm, along with Peiyuan Chai and Ryan Flynn at Harvard University. “Moving is good” Blood vessels are tricky to grow and control using conventional fabrication techniques. While 3D printers can produce vessels at the scale of major arteries and veins, the technology […]

A new study challenges a 60-year-old assumption about the body’s main structural building block, opening new possibilities for treating fibrosis and cancer. For more than half a century, collagen has been depicted as a long, rigid molecular cable, the structural protein that helps give skin, bones, tendons, and organs their strength. But that familiar image [...]

IMDEA Materials Institute has developed mechanically tunable hydrogel membranes that closely mimic the mechanical environment of human skin while remaining highly biocompatible, representing an improved platform for skin tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

California-based company Auxilium Biotechnologies just produced kidney and liver tissue in space for the first time, using a method called bioprinting,

Within the broad field of advanced therapies, which includes cell therapy and gene therapy, tissue engineering has emerged as one of the most promising tools for transforming the medicine of the future.

An engineered triphasic biomaterial scaffold successfully recreated the cranial suture stem cell niche lost in craniosynostosis, a condition that causes premature fusion of skull bones.

Engineered tissue grafts could help perform key liver functions and benefit thousands of people living with liver failure. The liver is one of the body’s hardest-working organs, carrying out hundreds of vital jobs, from filtering toxins and metabolizing medications to producing proteins essential for blood clotting. Yet when it fails, the only definitive treatment is [...]

Discover the groundbreaking world of lab-grown organs in our latest YouTube Shorts! In “Lab-Grown Organs: Revolutionizing Transplants,” we explore how scientists are utilizing bioprinting, scaffold tissue engineering, and induced pluripotent stem cells to create functional organs like kidneys, livers, and hearts. This innovative approach not only eliminates transplant waiting lists but also uses …

Development of 3D-printed biodegradable polymer scaffolds for osteochondral tissue engineering Author/s: Yuyao Liu Director/s: Javier LLorca and Mónica Echeverry Rendón Defence Date: 23/6/2025 Ph.D. Awarding Institution: School of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Madrid PDF Download Abstract Dendritic solidification is a multiscale problem in which the interplay between physical mechan…

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73680-2 Severe pediatric airway narrowing often requires complex surgery using rib cartilage. Here, authors developed tissue-engineered grafts using decellularized meniscal cartilage and ear-derived progenitors for biocompatible airway reconstruction.

Inks created with a patient’s own cells might one day help the body regrow tissues

Nasim Annabi, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received two grants from the National Institutes of Health to support her research on developing regenerative biomaterials and bioadhesive therapies