3D printing of embryonic stem cells in building blocks
A new 3D printing method allows to obtain regular blocks of embyonic stem cells (ESCs) that could be used to build larger structures like tissues...
3D bioprinting
Developmental biology
How organisms build themselves, and the community-driven work studying it.
17 articles
Embryonic Stem Cells and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Are Functionally Equivalent
Researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have found evidence that embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are functionally equivalent....
Bioengineering
Placental Cells Obtained Directly from Skin Cells
Scientists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem have obtained functional placental cells from epitelial cells, without passing through a pluripotent state. Mouse skin cell nuclei were...
Bioengineering
A Glowing Reporter for DNA Methylation in Single Cells
Researchers at MIT and Whitehead Institute in Cambridge have designed the first reporter for DNA methylation at the level of individual cells. The method allows to follow...
Basic Research
Cell Differentiation Controled with Light
Researchers from the University of California in San Francisco have discovered how to differentiate embryonic stem cells (ESCs) with light. Irradiation with beams of light transformed...
Bioengineering
Five-week Old Human Brain Grown in a Dish
A research team from Ohio State University has developed a brain in vitro that has the maturity of a five-week old human brain. The brain...
Biomedicine
New technology to make gRNA libraries for CRISPR/Cas9
A research team from University of California at Berkeley has developed a technique that makes gene editing much easier and cheaper. Rebecca Heald has directed...
Bioengineering
Laboratory Mini-brains Help Understanding Idiopatic Autism
Based on studies on lab-grown cerebral organoids, autism could be linked to an excess of inhibitory neurons. Brain models derived from the skin cells of...
Biomedicine