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Scientists Create Artificial Tissues With A Cotton Candy Machine
Spinning up a small intestine
Carbon Nanotubes Usher Molecules In And Out Of Cell Membranes
Success in the long-sought effort to make artificial pores
Carbon Nanotubes Transport Molecules In And Out Of Cell Membranes
Making membranes more porous and more like natural cells
Super Teeny 3-D Printed Livers Go On Sale
Soon, they'll help pharmaceutical companies test new drugs.
First Successful Regeneration Of An Organ In A Mammal
A chemical trigger regrows the thymus of a living mouse
Video: The Doctors Who Made the No-Pulse Heart
Heart Stop Beating is a three-minute documentary film about the no-pulse, continuous-flow artificial heart, which Dan Baum writes about in...
No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart
This 10,000-rpm, no-pulse artificial heart doesn't resemble an organic heart--and might be all the better for it
Japanese Researchers Create a Pituitary Gland From Scratch in the Lab
The thing about growing working organs in the lab is that the whole enterprise is completely mind-blowing. Yet we just...
State of the Bionic Art: The Best Replacements for My Flimsy Human Parts
In the event of some horrible accident, which bionic parts would I want replacing my own?
A New Artificial Lung Can Breathe Regular Air Rather Than Purified Oxygen
Researchers in Cleveland have built an artificial lung that is so efficient it can breathe regular air rather than the...
