The university's scientists have received a $28.5 million award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop a transplantable 3D-printed liver patch. The initiative ...

Carnegie Mellon bioprinted liver tissue works 2-4 weeks, potentially saving lives as temporary bridge while patients await ...

Liver failure is one of the most serious and deadly medical conditions, claiming thousands of lives each year as patients in the United States wait for a donor organ. An up to $25.8 million research ...

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 ...

Unlike traditional transplant approaches, the goal is not to permanently replace a failing liver, but to create a temporary, functional organ that can support patients long enough for their own liver ...

Carnegie Mellon received $28.5 million to develop liver tissue bioprinting, with hopes it can reduce the need for transplants ...

UC San Diego leads a $25.8 million ARPA-H funded project to 3D bioprint patient-specific human livers, aiming to eliminate organ shortages.

A Carnegie Mellon University-led team has received up to $28.5 million to develop a functional, 3D bioprinted liver for patients with acute liver failure. The temporary, immune-compatible liver is ...

Assessing the toxicity of food contaminants—including carcinogenic potential—is a major challenge in evaluating the risks ...

Liver failure is one of the most serious and deadly medical conditions, claiming thousands of lives each year as patients in the United States wait for a donor organ. An up to $25.8 million research ...

Shaochen Chen, professor in the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering at UC San Diego, stands between an early laboratory prototype of a bioprinter developed in his ...