According to pathologists, Tan Ince, certain tumors act a lot like bee colonies in some ways. In the tumor, each cancer cell has a specific role and just a portion of the cells act as the so-called queens, like those found in bee colonies. These queen cells have the unique capability of sustaining themselves in […]

A recent study puts into the spotlight the mechanical factors that perform an essential responsibility in the differentiation and function of fibroblasts, which are the connective tissue cells that work towards the achievement of wound healing and scar tissue formation.
When the body is injured, it initiates a complex rescue operation. Specialized cells, called fibroblasts, located […]

Skulls of laboratory mice were made whole again in Baltimore with the use of bone tissue grown from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). These experiments were conducted by a team of researchers from John Hopkins University. The scientists developed a new technique in healing critical-size defects in intramembraneous bone. These types of defects do not […]

A group of biomedical engineers from Brown University has developed a three-dimensional Petri dish that can produce cells in three dimensions. This method may quickly and cheaply grow more realistic cells for use the applications for drug development and tissue transplantation.The practice involves the use of a new dish that permits cells to naturally self-assemble […]

Scientists may be able to produce synthetically engineered tissues, like muscle or cartilage, considered necessary for transplant procedures very soon. A key development in this field is a microvascular system that was developed by engineers from Cornell. The said scientists reported in the journal Nature Materials that such microvascular system can feed the tissues that […]