Regenerative Medicine Is Solidly Based On Decellularized Fabrics and Matrices For millennia, the idea of regenerating tissues and organs inspired myths and legends, but today it is becoming a reality.

This Perspectives article describes the current status of the field of liver-tissue engineering and outlines some of the challenges being encountered. Some of the novel solutions being developed to ...

Researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory. By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists grew functioning heart tissue by taking dead rat and pig hearts and ...

Schematics of the experimental design and objectives in the perfusion decellularization assessment. Decellularization of tissues for regenerative medicine applications, such as cartilage repair, is ...

For people who need organ transplants, the agonizing wait could be shortened in the future, as doctors and medical researchers are now advancing techniques for creating new organs in the lab. Medicine ...

The framework of an old lung can grow a new one with the right cells. Scientists have used the remains of old lungs to grow new ones capable of being transplanted. Researchers led by Laura Niklason at ...

Our bodies are not like LEGO blocks or computers because we cannot swap out our parts in the living room while watching television. Organ transplants and cosmetic surgery are currently our options for ...

About 17 people die each day in the US waiting for an organ transplant — 6200 per year. And for the more than 10,000 Americans on the waiting list for a liver transplant, the future of medicine may ...

— University of Minnesota researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory. By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for ...