Biotechnology Club

University of Northern Iowa

Archive for the 'Tissue Engineering' Category

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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