Tissue Engineering

Lab-on-a-chip Will Help Give Better Understanding of Liver Function

April 17, 2017

Microfluidic chip for tissue culture with a special NMR detector developed in Southampton A new collaborative project led by researchers at the University of Southampton will take a novel approach towards a systemic understanding of liver [more...]

3D-printed Heart-on-a-chip with Integrated Sensors

November 6, 2016

Harvard University researchers have made the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed heart-on-a-chip can be quickly fabricated and [more...]

Researchers Invent “Smart” Thread That Collects Diagnostic Data

October 2, 2016

Threads penetrate multiple layers of tissue to sample interstitial fluid and direct it to sensing threads that collect data, such as pH and glucose levels. Conductive threads deliver the data to a flexible wireless transmitter sitting on [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...]

3D Printed Implant Contains Intricate Network of Blood Vessels

November 3, 2015

Red dye shows the tiny vessels in the silicone construct created in the Miller lab using a 3D printer. (Image Credit: Jeff Fitlow) Using sugar, silicone and a 3D printer, a team of bioengineers at Rice University and surgeons at the [more...]

Introduction to BioMEMS

August 16, 2015

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Author: Albert Folch Helping to educate the new generation of engineers and biologists, Introduction to BioMEMS explains how certain problems in biology and medicine benefit from and often [more...]

Review: Microfluidics Solution to Future Developments

August 15, 2015

Cell encapsulation with Dolomite microfluidic device. (Image Credit: Dolomite Microfluidics) Interest in microfluidics technology began as far back at 1975, when researchers at Stanford Univ. developed a miniature gas chromatograph [more...]

Tiny Biochemical Sensor Provides Real-time Cancer Monitoring

August 5, 2015

Illustration of the tiny biochemical sensor that can be implanted in cancerous tissue during an initial biopsy (Image Credit: Michael Cima et al, MIT) In the battle against cancer, which kills nearly 8 million people worldwide each year, [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...]

Market and Technology Analysis on Tissue Engineering

January 4, 2015

Microfluidics is playing an increasing role in tissue engineering, especially as it pertains to development of organ-on-a-chip systems. [Credit: science photo/Fotolia] TissueEngineeringLandscapePartII in PDF format The focus of this GEN [more...]