Researching are throwing lots of ideas at the wall to see what sticks, but the U.S. just put some serious cash behind the ...

Unlike traditional transplant approaches, the goal is not to permanently replace a failing liver, but to create a temporary, ...

More than 113,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list. A shortage of donors means about 20 of those people die every day waiting for organs, according to the U.S. Dept. of Health. But this could ...

Picture this: a 3D printer that can build a viable human organ at the push of a button. Sounds futuristic, but Dallas researchers are aiming to make that a reality. UT Southwestern Medical Center ...

Roughly 17 people die each day waiting for an organ transplant. One of the ways we could get more organs to patients who need them would be to simply make them from scratch by 3D printing them as ...

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? The soonest that ...

An international team of researchers has used 3D-printing technology to produce individually-tailored model organs. These dummy organs could one day improve your chances of surviving surgery, by ...

Organ printing is an emerging branch of medicine which uses healthy cells to repair a damaged or diseased organ. But as its name implies, this new medical technology needs ink, paper and a printer.

Across the United States, the brutal math of organ failure has barely budged for decades: demand keeps rising while supply stays painfully finite. Now a wave of 3D bioprinting breakthroughs is turning ...