When biomedical researchers need to test their latest ideas, they often turn to engineered human tissue that mimics the ...

The vascular system is the body’s essential infrastructure for regeneration—delivering oxygen, nutrients, and signaling cues that coordinate tissue repair. Over time, however, this regenerative ...

Paul Stankey (left) is a fourth-year PhD student at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute (both MA, USA), working in Professor Jennifer Lewis’ lab. Jennifer leads a ...

NASA has awarded first and second place to two teams of scientists from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The teams from the Institute landed first and second place in the NASA ...

– SYMVESS is a first-in-class bioengineered human tissue designed to be a universally implantable vascular conduit for use in arterial replacement and repair – – In clinical testing SYMVESS was ...

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 ...

FDA approves Humacyte's Symvess for urgent vascular repair in extremity arterial injuries when autologous grafts aren't feasible. Symvess provides off-the-shelf bioengineered vascular conduits, ...

To undergo kidney dialysis, doctors must first surgically create an access route—an arteriovenous fistula—usually in an arm, ...

Vascular dementia—cognitive impairment caused by disease in the brain's small blood vessels—is a widespread problem, but it ...