regenerative medicine

Researchers track neural connections between retinal cells in a dish to understand their therapeutic potential.

Scientists engineered human pluripotent stem cells with synthetic gene circuits to control differentiation without human input.

Mice that received the stem cell–derived treatment were less frail compared with controls, a study reports.

The former thoracic surgeon was acquitted on two counts of intentional assault but convicted on a single count of felony bodily injury for a series of fatal procedures in the early 2010s.

An ear made from the person’s own cells was surgically attached in March, the company behind the technology says.

The University of Southern California bioengineer studies how lizards regrow their tails, with the goal of one day inducing regeneration in humans.

A new chemical treatment allowed African clawed frogs, which normally don’t regenerate limbs, to regrow functional hind legs following amputation.

The mice, already known to regenerate skin, seem to avoid the tissue scarring that leads to organ failure in other animals.

Understanding this complex and still largely enigmatic process will pave the way for researchers to control the development of new morphologies.

Understanding biology’s software—the rules that enable great plasticity in how cell collectives generate reliable anatomies—is key to advancing tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Planarian flatworms grow to double their normal size when scientists inhibit a gene that suppresses growth.

Physicists, geneticists, computer scientists, and biologists are working together to gain a full appreciation of the intricacies of organismal growth and form.

A study in mice reveals that stem cell transplants, currently in clinical trials, may not actually require the cells.