D bioprinting uses living cells as "ink" to create functional tissues. Discover how this technology is transforming medicine ...

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers have 3D printed a functioning centimeter-scale human heart pump in the lab. The discovery could have major implications for studying heart disease, the ...

When they’re ready to extract the heart, all Feinberg has to do is raise the bath to body temperature, melting away the support gel and leaving behind the 3D-printed structure.

What if we could 3D print new hearts and other organs on demand, using cells from a patient’s own body? Stanford bioengineer ...

A researcher holds a customized, 3D-printed heart made to mimic the shape and behavior of a patient's heart. (Melanie Gonick/MIT) Engineers can now print three-dimensional replicas of a human ...

This works well for creating complex tissues like those found in the human heart where the 3D structure is critical to its function. Of course, there are major challenges to this approach, too.

Nearly one in 100 children in the US are born with a heart defect. Although they can receive transplants, those transplants can be rejected by the body as long as 20 or 30 years later.

A team of researchers at Duke University and Harvard Medical School say they've developed a new way to 3D print inside the human body, by sending ultrasound waves at an injectable biocompatible ink.

Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists -- so far. A new multi-chamber ...

3D Human Body Plan in Petri Dish. ... 9-12 human embryos, which is known to be a critical stage during human development where organs such as the brain and heart start forming,” he remarks. ...

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that mimics the strength, flexibility and overall mechanics of a real femur.