As thousands of people await a lifesaving heart, scientists are racing to buy them more time. A promising advance from ...

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Lei Shi is working with researchers around the world to innovate cardiovascular ...

A new method here seems to be literally patching up a patient’s heart with healthy heart tissue, per the first human study results by [Ahmad-Fawad Jebran] et al. as published in Nature (as well ...

genetic and molecular origins of soft joint tissue diseases, biomaterials under extreme conditions, coupling between stimulus-responsiveness and geometry Engineering development and optimization of ...

In particular, our group is focused primarily on cartilage tissue engineering, but will soon be expanding into cardiac muscle tissue engineering.

Two common and potentially deadly heart diseases can be caused by mutations in the same gene. Surprisingly, though, these two ...

potentially leading to advances in bioelectronics and heart tissue engineering. While the team used high-precision 3D ...

Heart cells grown in space showed stronger survival, better function, and boosted healing traits. Spaceflight changed key ...

Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from engineering, biology, and materials science to develop biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue ...

Table 1 Selected companies with tissue engineering programs. Full size table Medtronic, a leading medical device company with a cardiac surgery business, offers a complete line of mechanical and ...