He said of the experiment on cow tissue: 'This is the first demonstration ... The cells were grown on a biodegradable kidney-shaped scaffold designed by experts at Harvard Medical School.

Making sure the appropriate cells were seeded into the correct portions of the collagen scaffold required delivering vascular cells through the renal artery and kidney cells through the ureter.

This week, researchers announced an important development toward that goal: A biodegradable scaffold that allows strips of beating heart tissue to snap together like Velcro. We’ve gotten pretty ...

In the lab, the structures serve as a scaffold for growing cells. The method opens up new possibilities for the production of lifelike tissue models for biomedical research, and could reduce the ...

These include direct physical compression, disruption of blood flow and increased pressure within the kidney, and the release of inflammatory signals and hormones from expanded fat tissue.

Scientists from the University of California San Diego and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a powerful new way to look inside kidney tissues—without needing to ...