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Cut in a fetal body. Courtesy of the researchers

How - and where - does a disease begin?

Researchers discovered which genes are required for each stage of cell differentiation into neural stem cells and neurons, i.e. for brain development, and which of them are involved in diseases of the nervous system
Dr. Shulamit Levenberg. Photo: The Technion

Prof. Shulamit Levenberg from the Technion was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in the USA

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The announcement of her election will take place at the Academy's annual conference to be held in June 2024 in North Carolina
Illustration: Sally Neve

A breakthrough in the treatment of herniated disc

Tissue engineering offers a solution for the treatment of disc herniations: an implant that combines synthetic hydrogel and living cartilage cells
A "ghost" heart is a pig heart that has been prepared so that it can be transplanted into humans. Provided by Doris Taylor

"Ghost" hearts from a pig and the patient's stem cells will replace the need for heart donations

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Today, patients needing a heart transplant have to join a waiting list, and hearts become available when someone else dies. Because there are not enough hearts, only critically ill patients are put on the waiting list
Follow-up studies that will lead to the application of spinal cord rehabilitation technology in humans. Illustration: BruceBlaus, Wikimedia.

Researchers were able to restore the spinal cord of paralyzed rats

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These tiny polymer scaffolds include channels 100 micrometers wide, about the width of a human hair. When live cells are added to the content, the channels serve as artificial blood vessels. By mimicking human tissues of organs such as liver and heart, these scaffolds provide an innovative method for testing new drugs with the aim of reducing their dangerous side effects. [Courtesy: Tyler Irving/Boyang Zhang/Kevin Soobrian]

Engineers have succeeded in growing XNUMXD heart and liver tissues

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Photograph showing examples of individual pacemaker cells [courtesy: Vasanth Vedantham]

Stem cells for the development of biological pacemakers

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A solution to the world's hunger problems? Engineered muscle tissue in culture. Photo courtesy of the Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Tel Aviv University

At Tel Aviv University they are trying to grow chicken breast in culture

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Dr. Shulamit Levenberg. Photo: The Technion

The Technion researchers succeeded for the first time in transplanting engineered tissue with main blood vessels, in an abdominal muscle with a severe injury

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A new method for XNUMXD printing was developed by Jennifer Lewis and her team at Harvard, using multiple print heads and an adapted 'ink' to create complex living structures, along with the tiny blood vessels. Click here to see how it works. Photo: Wise Institute at Harvard University and SEAS

An important step towards XNUMXD printing of living tissues

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Artificial blood vessel. Illustration: Fernhauper Institute

A printer that produces blood vessels?

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From right to left: Elon Langbheim, Dr. Yair Shukif, Prof. Shmuel Shafran, Dr. Benjamin Fredrich.

The importance of substrate stiffness in tissue engineering

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the lungs

artificial lung

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Images: Carlson Lab/Brown University and Morgan Lab/Brown University

Grow an egg in a petri dish

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Spotted salamander. From Wikipedia

Dr. Anthony Atala's laboratory for growing organs from patients' cells: the solution to the shortage of organs for transplantation

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Lung on a chip. Image courtesy of Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Development of a human lung on a chip

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This three-dimensional surface demonstrates on a nanometer scale the same ripples and folds that fishing nets demonstrate on a macroscopic scale. Photo: Adam Feinberg, Harvard University.

Creating nanofibers inspired by nature

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Prof. Samdar Cohen, Ben-Gurion University

For the first time, the Rapaport Award for excellence in the medical field is awarded

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Doctoral student on the road - part six - Roy's lecture

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A young researcher from the Hebrew University has developed a method to encourage the creation of bone tissue

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The triangle of forces

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A new way to repair spinal cord injuries - a "liquid" bridge may help severed nerve cells to grow

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A three-dimensional tissue emerges from stem cells and a scaffold

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