BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — As humans venture farther and farther out into space, having the ability to tackle increasingly complex medical problems will become more important, scientists say That’s one of ...

NASA will announce the first- and second-place winners of the Vascular Tissue Challenge, a prize competition to grow and sustain functioning human tissue in a lab, Wednesday, June 9. Experts will ...

Scientists have successfully grown liver tissue capable of functioning for 30 days in the lab as part of NASA's Vascular Tissue Challenge. In 2016, NASA put forth this competition to find teams that ...

The Vascular Tissue Challenge is a $500,000 prize purse to be divided among the first three teams who successfully create thick, human vascularized organ tissue in an in vitro environment while ...

WINSTON-SALEM – A team of researchers from Wake Forest University led by Kelsey Willson, a graduate student, has won NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge, and will receive $300,000 and the opportunity to ...

Within our bodies, cells survive by being chatty: They rely on a network of blood vessels to communicate with one another and receive vital nutrients. Replicating this cell crosstalk in a lab is less ...

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Methuselah Foundation, which co-sponsored the Vascular Tissue Challenge with NASA, today announced the award-winning researchers achieved scientific ...

With the creation of functional lab-engineered liver tissues, two teams of scientists from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), part of Wake Forest School of Medicine, won ...

June 9 (UPI) --A pair of engineering teams from Wake Forest University took home first and second place in NASA's Vascular Tissue Challenge, the space agency announced Wednesday. Both teams used ...

Bamboo tissue paper, often marketed as an eco-friendly alternative, may not be as green as consumers think. Researchers at NC State University found that while bamboo fibers themselves are not more ...