artificial organs

Spinning up a small intestine

Success in the long-sought effort to make artificial pores

Making membranes more porous and more like natural cells

Soon, they'll help pharmaceutical companies test new drugs.

A chemical trigger regrows the thymus of a living mouse

Heart Stop Beating is a three-minute documentary film about the no-pulse, continuous-flow artificial heart, which Dan Baum writes about in … Continued

This 10,000-rpm, no-pulse artificial heart doesn't resemble an organic heart--and might be all the better for it

The thing about growing working organs in the lab is that the whole enterprise is completely mind-blowing. Yet we just … Continued

In the event of some horrible accident, which bionic parts would I want replacing my own?

Researchers in Cleveland have built an artificial lung that is so efficient it can breathe regular air rather than the … Continued