Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 3:37pm
Make up your mind, appendix! Studies show that the organ, often more trouble than it's worth, has evolved independently in mammals over and over again.
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Sunday, June 24, 2012 - 3:02pm
The lab-on-a-chip, designed by researchers at John Hopkins, seems like science-fiction lure, but what it has inspired is even more futuristic: living organ-on-a-chip. It's exactly what it sounds like, as hard as that might be to believe: a living organ on a chip.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 11:37am
If you're still not convinced that stem cells are the future of medicine, try this on for size: Japanese researchers have used them to synthesize a fully functioning organ entirely from scratch.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 10:58am
It's like something out of science fiction or a horror movie or both: in order to facilitate transplants, we can now keep human hearts alive and beating and toasty warm inside a special electromechanical box full of fresh blood.
Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 2:22pm
For the first time ever, rats implanted with lab-grown lungs were able to breathe and oxygenate their blood. It's a huge step towards being able to grow organs for people who need replacements, ending the need for live-patient transplants.
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 9:01am
It sounds like science fiction, but researchers from the University of Missouri have a 3D printer that could one day recreate human organs by using a cocktail made from human cells. If your liver was failing, for instance, cells from...
