Biotechnology Club

Research chemists at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) have developed a water-soluble, organic, self-assembling electronic wire suitable for use inside the human body. Derived from carbon materials, the lightweight, flexible wires can power pacemakers, reconnect damaged nerve tissues, while also interacting with real electronic device that could augment or stimulate organic function. But do not worry, [...]

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clipped from www.technologyreview.com Living Legos can be directed to form tissue-like structures. Tissue engineers are ambitious. If they had their way, a dialysis patient could receive a new kidney made in the lab from [...]

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For the first time, researchers have successfully grown functional human blood vessels in mice using cells from adult human donors — an important step in developing clinical strategies to grow tissue, researchers report in Circulation Research: Journal of the American Heart Association.

The researchers combined two different types of progenitor cells in a culture dish of [...]

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Now when it comes to weird technology you really will think this is weird, a new and amazing breakthrough in biotechnology allows body parts to re-grow that have been damaged or lost. You got to watch the video below to believe it. Source — Related Articles at Weird Things:Nadya will you marry me, [...]

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Transgenic xenotransplantation. That’s a mouthful. But it’s basically the injecting of human DNA into animal embryos, which eventually grow into animals sporting human genes (transgenic), and then killing the animals and transplanting their now more “human-like” organs into people (xenotransplantation) who desperately need a new liver or heart or kidney — without which they would [...]

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Researchers have demonstrated that living human nerve cells can be engineered into a network that could one day be used for transplants to repair damaged to the nervous system.
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