While even conservative estimates say it will take over a decade into the future, that’s not a very long time, says Nigel Pereira In India alone, a mere 6000 renal transplants occur every year, ...

What if doctors could just print a kidney, using cells from the patient, instead of having to find a donor match and hope the patient's body doesn't reject the transplanted kidney?Related video above: ...

A new type of 3D-printable material that gets along with the body's immune system, pioneered by a University of Virginia research team, could lead to ...

Engineers have developed a flexible robot that enters the rectum to 3D print living cells on damaged organs, eliminating the need for patients to 'go under the knife.' The University of South Wales ...

Centre of Excellence for 3D bioprinting is in the works, courtesy IISc and leading global bioprinting company The Indian Institute of Science will soon launch a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for 3D ...

The process, developed at Heriot-Watt University, in partnership with Roslin Cellab, takes advantage of the fact that stem cells can now be grown in laboratory conditions from established cell lines, ...

How advanced is the technology for creating live, moving organs for the human body using 3D printers? Bioprinting research in engineering tissues with bioink containing living cells has been on the ...

The cause of this discrepancy is "a combination of people who undergo catastrophic health events, but their organs aren't high enough quality to donate, or they're not on the organ donor list to begin ...

You may not be able to grow bigger muscles out of thin air, but you can 3D print them in microgravity, scientists at ETH ...