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Researchers at Wake Forest University have a new far-out location for advancing their work with human organ tissues - the International Space Station.
Here are the winners of Excellence Awards at Triad BioNight, a celebration of the region’s life sciences community organized by the Piedmont Triad Office of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
3D printing technologies created gel-like molds that allowed living cells to grow into human liver tissue, which also provided it enough oxygen and nutrients to function for 30 days.
Two teams of North Carolina scientists have engineering lab-grown liver tissues that survived for 30 days. This breakthrough, which won the teams first and second prize in NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge, could lay the groundwork for better organ models and easier transplants in the future.
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 test their technology on the International Space Station. “Not only was this a scientifically difficult challenge,” said Willson, there were technical hurdles due to the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic. She and her team were locked out of their lab for a period of time, due to COVID-19, said Willson. The Vascular Tissue Challenge was issued in 2016. The winner was announced ...