Research on synthetic, lab-grown organs is not a new thing by any means. But a perfect, artificially produced, one-to-one replacement for a human organ is yet to see daylight.

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More specifically, all the models the scientific community has seen thus far have been far too small to house a proper oxygen-delivering mechanism for the cells in the tissues of the organ to survive.

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In a paper published by researchers hailing from the Wyss Institute at Harvard, a group of scientists has now prototyped a solution to the problem. The core team led by Mark A. Skylar-Scott published the paper—Biomanufacturing of organ-specific tissues with high cellular density and embedded vascular channels—in the Science Adventures magazine, in which it demonstrated Sacrificial Writing Into Functional Tissue (SWIFT), which is a technique that will enable the creation of larger and more effective organs. The team wrote in the paper: Here, we report a […]

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