This stripped-down pig heart might not heal a bad romance, but it could one day be a miracle for someone with a bum ticker. At Mass General’s Ott Laboratory for Organ Engineering and Regeneration (see ...

As 22 Americans die each day waiting for a transplant, researchers are trying to regrow or build new organs to remedy scarce organ donations. An Austin-based nonprofit, Solving Organ Shortage — or SOS ...

Dr. Harald Ott, a thoracic surgeon at Mass General Hospital , discovered a method now used in whole organ regeneration. Scientists are working at the Ott Lab to create personalized "organs on demand." ...

Traditional-tissue engineering approaches (Panel A) seed cells onto a three-dimensional biomaterial scaffold that serves as a framework for new tissue development (i). The scaffold degrades as new ...

Is it possible to create entire organs from stem cells, that way the waiting list for organ donations could get shorter? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling ...

Listen with Speechify 0:00 1:00 By Alison McCook How Tengion builds autologous bladders Please download the Adobe Flash Player to view this content: Betting on better organs What it takes to make an ...

In 1985, we hypothesized that a living vital organ could be rationally designed and built for human therapy from cells and degradable polymer scaffolding. This was based on only two pieces of previous ...

Twenty people die waiting for an organ transplant every day in the US, but lab-grown organs so far lack the cellular density, vasculature, and functions required to make them viable replacements. The ...

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This stripped-down pig heart might not heal a bad romance, but it could one day be a miracle for someone with a bum ticker. At Mass General’s Ott Laboratory for Organ Engineering and Regeneration (see ...