New Organ

Check out this amazing video of work from one of the
NASA Centennial Challenges Vascular Tissue Challenge teams! A great step in advancing thick-tissue vascularization - one of the key road-map challenges toward ending the organ shortage!

Laser-welded sugar: Sweet way to 3D-print blood vessels.

Laser-welded sugar is sweet way to 3D print blood vessels Powdered sugar is the special ingredient in a Rice University recipe for mimicking the body’s intricate, branching blood vessels in lab-grown tissues. In res...

A new review was just published from Dr. Arun Sharma - one of our New Organ Alliance members - about multi-cell lineage models using pluripotent stem cells. Sourcing cells is a huge challenge for bioengineering tissues and organs of any size. Check out the article here:

Multi-lineage Human iPSC-Derived Platforms for Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery Sharma et al. review recent advances in multi-cell-lineage, hiPSC-derived platforms for disease modeling and drug screening. These complex model systems, which include organoids, assembloids, organ-chips, and tissue-engineered constructs, are more realistic representations of human tissues containi...

Check out this Bloomberg story on Techshot, Inc.'s efforts to bioprint tissues and organs in space: https://youtu.be/p_hauPqouH8?t=156. Techshot is one of 19 teams preparing to conduct a Vascular Tissue Challenge trial in the next year.

Bloomberg Giant Leap episode excerpt featuring Techshot Edited excerpt from the Bloomberg Giant Leap series featuring Techshot, Inc.

⏰DEADLINE APPROACHING! Friday, Sept. 30 is the last day for research groups to submit a trial application for the Vascular Tissue Challenge! Trial applications outline how you would conduct a trial. Groups have through September 2020 to actually complete their trial to win the $500,000 challenge! NASA Centennial Challenges SEE MORE >>

New Organ - VTC Prize This challenge will rally scientists worldwide to produce viable thick-tissue assays that can be used to advance research on human physiology.