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Oxford Scientists Develop New Method of 3D Printing Living Tissues

August 19, 2017

Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a new method to 3D-print laboratory-grown cells to form living structures. The approach could revolutionise regenerative medicine, enabling the production of complex tissues and [more...]

Microfluidics and Spectroscopic Imaging for Personalized Medicine in Ovarian Cancer

April 2, 2016

With certain cancers, such as ovarian cancers, a significant number of patients are non-responsive to the standard chemotherapy treatment. These patients, therefore, experience the negative side effects of chemotherapy without clinical [more...]

Scaling Up Tissue Engineering

March 18, 2016

Confocal microscopy image showing a cross-section of a 3D-printed, 1-centimeter-thick vascularized tissue construct showing stem cell differentiation towards development of bone cells, following one month of active perfusion of fluids, [more...]

Fight Neurodegenerative Diseases using Stem Cells and Microfluidics

June 28, 2015

Screenshot from BellBrook Lab BellBrook Labs, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently awarded federal funding to develop a microscale system to accelerate discovery of more effective drugs for [more...]

Mechanically Stimulating Stem Cells

April 4, 2015

Diagram of inertial microfluidic separation, developed with Professor J. Han at MIT and SMART, for sorting mesenchymal (bone marrow-derived) stem cells by cell diameter. Illustration adapted from the 2014 PNAS article, “Multivariate [more...]

New Nanoneedles Could Be an Important Tool to Reprogram Cells

April 4, 2015

Image of nanoneedles delivering nucleic acids to a human cell (Image Credit:Imperial College London) Researchers from Imperial College London think that a new nanoneedle technique could help deliver nucleic acids to cells. This would then [more...]

Exotic Micropumps and Gels Offer Hope for Hearing Disorders

March 14, 2015

Researchers at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory have fabricated and tested a simplified micropump and used it to demonstrate the flow of fluid into and out of the device, the ability to store drug in a reservoir on board, and the [more...]

Hearts-on-a-chip Could Aid Drug Screening

March 9, 2015

UC Berkeley researchers have created a ‘heart-on-a-chip’ that effectively uses human cardiac muscle cells derived from adult stem cells to model how a human heart reacts to cardiovascular medications. The system could one day [more...]