Someday, doctors would like to grow limbs and other body tissue for soldiers who have lost arms in battle, children who need a new heart or liver, and many other people with critical needs. Today, ...

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 ...

Have your research results or laboratory processes been bogged down by poor staining quality of histology slides? We all know that proper tissue processing is a key element to downstream staining ...

Welcome to the Tissue Instructive Materials (TIMs) lab at Drexel University! The focus of the laboratory is on the development, application, and understanding of biomaterials which interact with ...

Do you have questions about Tissue Processing? Robin Fitzl, Senior Application Specialist at Leica Biosystems, has the answers! As part of her popular “Lessons from the Laboratory” series, Robin ...

Neurons (greenish yellow) attach to silk-based scaffold (blue), creating functional networks throughout the scaffold pores (dark areas).--Courtesy of Tufts University Investigators from Tufts ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS) announced a solicitation to utilize the International Space Station (ISS) to advance ...