Scientists from Sun Yat-sen University's School of Biomedical Engineering have developed groundbreaking tubular scaffolds made from electrospun membranes, which significantly enhance bone regeneration ...

How do you get an artificial leg to listen to the brain? To design limbs that can respond to thought and send sensory info back to the brain, researchers have been looking at ways to connect ...

Is it possible to grow vascular tissue suitable for revascularization or for vascular conduits? This report summarizes the various methods used for tissue engineering and the future prospects for what ...

Tubular organs refer to the body’s hollow, tube-like structures, which are vital for critical bodily functions such as blood circulation (via blood vessels), digestion (via the intestines), as well as ...

The authors would like to thank the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for funding a DTA studentship for JM Dugan. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial ...

Last year there were about 115,000 people on the transplant list and almost 35,000 transplants performed. That is a huge mismatch in demand versus supply. About 20 people die a day because they cannot ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Spinal cord injury in humans remains a devastating and incurable disorder. It is still a traumatic pathology that may impair patients' movements by interrupting their ...

Scientists have built a miniature scaffold inside bacteria that can be used to bolster cellular productivity, with implications for the next generation of biofuel production. Because there is a ...