The ability to 3D print different materials has expanded in recent years. Before, 3D printing metals seemed like a ludicrous concept, and now it is one of the leading 3D printing-associated industries ...

The field of soft robotics has a longstanding relationship with healthcare. When it comes to emulating the sense of touch, however, researchers have had limited success fine-tuning dexterity and ...

When treating severe burns and trauma, skin regeneration can be a matter of life or death. Extensive burns are usually treated by transplanting a thin layer of epidermis, the top layer of skin, from ...

Bioprinting holds the promise of producing tissues and organs on demand, but efforts have been held back by our inability to create the networks of blood vessels required to sustain them. Two ...

ROCHESTER — Among all of the things skin, the body's largest organ, is good at, it's particularly great at regrowing itself. "The skin turns over every 30 days," said Dr. Saranya Wyles, a ...