By revealing that animals could develop immune responses against their own tissues, the physician-scientist established an entirely new field of science.

Researchers can print cells and biomaterials that make up human tissues, but there’s still a long way to go before fully functional organs can be made to order.

Skin is much easier to create using 3-D printing than intestines.

Scientists are devising human-animal hybrids for harvesting human organs, but lab-derived mini-organs are a less ethically fraught solution to meeting the need for transplantation.

Scientists are devising human-animal hybrids for harvesting human organs, but lab-derived mini-organs are a less ethically fraught solution to meeting the need for transplantation.

The girl was born in Brazil in December 2017.

The devices, which could one day treat children with esophageal atresia and short bowel, were recently tested in pigs.

After losing his genitals in a roadside bomb explosion, the soldier endured a 14-hour surgery to have a donated penis, scrotum, and partial abdominal wall attached.

The goal is to house patients’ follicles in a specially designed tissue matrix and reinsert them after treatment.