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Hearts-on-a-chip Could Aid Drug Screening
UC Berkeley researchers have created a ‘heart-on-a-chip’ that effectively uses human cardiac muscle cells derived from adult stem cells to model how a human heart reacts to cardiovascular medications....
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Exotic Micropumps and Gels Offer Hope for Hearing Disorders
Researchers at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory have fabricated and tested a simplified micropump and used it to demonstrate the flow of fluid into and out of the device, the ability to store drug...
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New Nanoneedles Could Be an Important Tool to Reprogram Cells
Image of nanoneedles delivering nucleic acids to a human cell (Image Credit:Imperial College London) Researchers from Imperial College London think that a new nanoneedle technique could help deliver...
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Mechanically Stimulating Stem Cells
Diagram of inertial microfluidic separation, developed with Professor J. Han at MIT and SMART, for sorting mesenchymal (bone marrow-derived) stem cells by cell diameter. Illustration adapted from the...
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Fight Neurodegenerative Diseases using Stem Cells and Microfluidics
Screenshot from BellBrook Lab BellBrook Labs, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently awarded federal funding to develop a microscale system to accelerate discovery of...
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Scaling Up Tissue Engineering
Confocal microscopy image showing a cross-section of a 3D-printed, 1-centimeter-thick vascularized tissue construct showing stem cell differentiation towards development of bone cells, following one...
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Microfluidics and Spectroscopic Imaging for Personalized Medicine in Ovarian...
With certain cancers, such as ovarian cancers, a significant number of patients are non-responsive to the standard chemotherapy treatment. These patients, therefore, experience the negative side...
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Oxford Scientists Develop New Method of 3D Printing Living Tissues
Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a new method to 3D-print laboratory-grown cells to form living structures. The approach could revolutionise regenerative medicine, enabling the...
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