On November 10, 2025, scientists achieved a significant milestone in the field of biotechnology by 3D printing muscle tissue in microgravity. This groundbreaking experiment was conducted with the ...

The organ transplant waiting list numbers 8,000 people each year in Germany alone, and about 10% of them never receive an ...

Every year, countless patients wait for life-saving organs for transplantation, with waiting lists stretching for years. With its development of bio-inks, the Fraunhofer Institute has taken a major ...

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 ...

File this under unexpectedly cool: organs you don’t harvest, but instead print using an honest-to-goodness printer, just as you might words on paper, except in this case, the “words” are actual stem ...

Imagine what brain surgeons could do with a three-dimensional (3D)-printed model of the brain. Not a structural model printed in plastic and uniform throughout, but one that mirrors the heterogeneity ...

On the second floor of Tampa General Hospital, machines whir and scientists tinker. Absent are goggles and bubbling beakers. Instead, this lab is full of printers. In the largest of the machines — ...

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 ...