With no end to the shortage of organ donors in sight, scientists have for decades attempted to build organs for transplantation from the ground up. The discovery of embryonic stem cells in 1981 ...

You probably learned about organelles, those little "organs ... they are not made of wax. Instead, a cluster of proteins and ...

the ability to reprogram cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and other advances in tissue engineering have enabled scientists to grow a range of different tissues, including mini guts, ...

Nowadays, mini-organs, or 3D-organoids, which originate from animal or human stem cells, are also often used for stem cell research. The structure of the tissue is partly maintained in the organoid ...

The team are carrying out a clinical trial of a method which uses an artificial ‘scaffold’, made ... complex organ. The first trachea transplant using the patient’s own stem cells took ...

Every organ in our body contains a small number of adult stem cells that are specific to its niche. These cells act like a ...

The technique uses pluripotent stem cells created by genetically reprogramming ... roughly disk shaped mini-kidneys. These three dimensional ‘mini-organs’, contain many of the cell types and ...

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The gallbladder plays an important role in digestion but hasn’t received much attention in medical research. However, that’s starting to change. With advances in stem cell technology, scientists can ...

Worldwide, about 20 people die per day while waiting for any organ. A promising advance from scientists in Germany offers a potential solution – a "heart patch" made from stem cells that could ...

A Stanford University research team created a functional replica of the human nervous system for pain perception for the ...

You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs ... are not made of wax. Instead, a cluster of proteins and ...