Scientists have developed a tissue-engineered model of lung and trachea which contains the diverse cell types present in the human respiratory tract. Scientists at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have ...

WINSTON-SALEM, NC, -- Dec. 4, 2019 -- Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) scientists are the first to report using bioprinting to print a tracheal tissue construct comprised of ...

Biomedical engineers are growing tracheas by coaxing cells to form three distinct tissue types after assembling them into a tube structure-without relying on scaffolding strategies currently being ...

In back-to-back reports published Aug. 27, 2020, in Nature Communications, a team of scientists from Cincinnati Children's and Japan report discoveries that will be vital to a new wave of more-complex ...

IT is well recognized that thyroid tissue may be ectopically situated in various locations in the neck. Lingual thyroid tissue, thyroglossal-duct remnants and aberrant lateral cervical thyroid have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. A 56-year-old woman with a history of severe asthma has ...