Sentences with phrase «artificial tissue»

That's a problem for researchers trying to construct artificial tissues and organs, and one that two separate teams of engineers may have just solved.

When the cells are arranged in the right way, the resulting artificial tissue can serve as a stand - in for human subjects in drug testing.

In the short term, such artificial tissues could help researchers study disease processes and test new drugs in the lab.

The hope is that the bricks will be used to construct artificial tissues for human implantation.

«We can start to think about using this in artificial tissues where you might want channels running through it that mimic blood vessels,» Wong said.

Resurrecting long - dead species, bioengineering friendlier animals, and creating robot creatures made of artificial tissue: These are some of the concepts proposed by prominent zoo directors, animal behaviorists, conservationists, and architects at a first - ever symposium about the future of zoos, held in Buffalo, New York, this winter.

ReInnervate, a start - up in Durham, England, is developing a tiny, three - dimensional plastic scaffolding on which human cells can be grown into artificial tissue, and perhaps eventually into replacements for organs.

Tandon uses electrical signals and environmental manipulations to grow artificial tissues for transplants and other therapies.

BUILDING artificial tissue could become child's play, if Lego - like blocks made of human cells can be assembled into working organs.

«Many of the techniques for creating artificial tissue also were rather lengthy, which was frustrating.»

This could transition the research from artificial material mimicking neural tissue to artificial tissue now mimicking neuromuscular tissue.

The technique could be useful could be useful in fabricating microfluidic devices, creating biomaterials that respond dynamically to stimuli and in patterning artificial tissue.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded more than $ 2 million to a team of scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and InvivoSciences, a biotechnology startup with WUSTL roots, to construct artificial tissue models that will allow the rapid testing of new drugs for heart failure.

BORROWING a trick from the office photocopier may make it possible for a nanoscale printer to precisely manipulate biological cells for use in artificial tissue.

Material similar to that used in candy decorations helps researchers pump blood into artificial tissue

Despite being trapped and baked within a polymer, cell staining shows that the cultured cells remained alive, says Fernandez, an obvious necessity if they are to be used for artificial tissues.

The biocompatibility of the alginate is promising for additional future applications, including in making scaffolds for artificial tissue and organs, the researchers say.

«Our subsequent examination of these artificial tissue samples revealed that various cell types characteristic of the midbrain had developed,» says Jens Schwamborn.

In this respect, translating these basic concepts to engineer tissues might solve problems associated with poor regeneration and artificial tissues.

«Their ability to build living 3D vascularized tissues from the bottom - up provides a potential way to form macroscale functional tissue replacements that can be surgically connected to the body's own blood vessels to provide immediate perfusion of these artificial tissues, and thus, greatly increase their likelihood of survival.

We know the machine is of alien - origin on account of subtle product - design touches: the glaring white nothing that makes up the background; the sterile shine glimmering from the artificial tissue bringing one to mind of Chris Cunningham's groundbreaking, unsettling video for Bjork's «All is Full of Love».

Next thing you know we've got androids shedding their artificial tissue in a full on blood rage.