Losing a limb ends the story for most animals, but a handful of species treat serious injury as a temporary setback. Their bodies rebuild nerve, muscle, bone and skin from scratch, and biologists ...

Patients who need reconstructive surgery to replace body parts could soon have the procedure done using laboratory-grown cartridge. The newly developed process uses 3D printing technology and it was ...

Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, hearts, joints, and even entire faces. This technology will improve by leaps and bounds ...

It’s a medical breakthrough right out of science fiction: Diseased or damaged body parts can be replaced with new tissue grown from a patient’s own cells. These tissue-engineering advances have become ...