Tag: Tissue Engineering

  • Nation & World

    A step closer to tissue-engineered kidneys

    The Wyss Institute and Roche Innovation Center Basel in Switzerland have teamed up to create 3-D bioprinted proximal tubules beside functioning blood vessel compartments, closely mimicking the kidney’s blood-filtration system that removes waste products while returning “good” molecules, such as glucose and amino acids, back into the bloodstream.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A malignant ‘switch’ in breast cancer

    A team of researchers led by David J. Mooney, Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has identified a possible mechanism by which normal cells turn malignant in mammary epithelial tissues, those frequently involved in breast cancer.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A lab focused on healing

    Robert Langer of MIT shared his hopes for bioengineering in a talk at Radcliffe.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Artificial jellyfish swims in a heartbeat

    A team of researchers at Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology has turned inanimate silicon and living cardiac muscle cells into a freely swimming “jellyfish.”

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    AIMBE inducts Ingber to College of Fellows

    The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced on Feb. 4 that its founding director, Donald E. Ingber, has been inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s College of Fellows.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Lessons from Afghanistan

    Kevin Kit Parker, U.S. Army major and bioengineering professor, offers a “ground-truth” description of how the war is being fought in Afghanistan, and a personal assessment of the challenges faced by U.S. forces.

    4 minutes