HLI researchers 3D print living heart tissue. The engineered heart samples can be used to test drugs and treatments before clinical trials.

A common trope in science fiction, especially cyberpunk fiction, involves custom-grown replacement organs based on the recipient's own flesh. We're not there yet as a species—and in fact still a good ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion show scientists 3D printing a human heart for the first time. This matters because it ...

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Miniature-sized heart chambers called ventricles have been 3D printed with live human heart muscle cells and shown to beat on their own for at least three months. Artificial heart tissue can be made ...

We’ve come a long way from the Vacanti mouse. Back in the mid-90s, Charles Vacanti and other researchers experimented with cartilage regeneration and, with the help of a biodegradable mold and bovine ...

A “ghost heart” grown with scaffolding from a pig’s organ and human cells may soon be used in human transplants, experts say. A molecular biologist said that after seeing heart cells beat in unison in ...

Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis." Take the human heart, for instance. If ...

Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum, left, observes the Anatomage Tables, the latest addition to MSU’s Department of Biological Sciences curricula. The university hosted a ...

Heart disease -- the leading cause of death in the U.S. -- is so deadly in part because the heart, unlike other organs, cannot repair itself after injury. That is why tissue engineering, ultimately ...