Advanced Cell Models – News and Features

Scientists have succeeded in growing stem cells that have the ability to develop into two different types of cells that make up a healthy pancreas.

Complex human brain tissue has been successfully developed in a three-dimensional culture system established in an Austrian laboratory.

An international team of researchers has used stem cells to create a 3D structure that mimics early human brain development.

Research teams from Purdue University's Discovery Park and the Korean Institute of Science and Technology will meet May 16.

UK award recognition validates US teams' approach to revolutionize drug development.

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have mimicked pulmonary edema in a microchip lined by living human cells, as reported today in the journal Science Translation Medicine.

Christopher P. Austin, M.D., will serve as director of the NIH's newest center, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).

Researchers from Cornell University will develop microphysiological modules to model the nervous, circulatory and gastrointestinal tract systems.

Research is receiving 4.2 Mio Euros from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme.

Seattle researchers will be part of the new federal initiative to engineer 3-dimensional chips containing living cells and tissues that imitate the structure and function of human organs.