Most chronic and age-related diseases result from tissue failure. Cells lose function, structures degrade, and organs stop working. Modern medicine excels at modifying biological signals but cannot ...

Burn, trauma, and plastic surgery patients and others needing skin autografts often have limited quantities of healthy tissue from which to take skin biopsies, and when skin grafts are transplanted, ...

A researcher working to create tissue that can replace or protect damaged muscle after a heart attack shares his plans to bioengineer heart tissue cell-by-cell. Jianyi "Jay" Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., ...