One held a biocompatible plastic that, when printed, would form the interlocking structure of a scaffold—the skeleton, essentially—of a printed human organ or body ... get a 3-D image of ...

What does our body do? The human body has different parts that help ... They also protect the important organs inside you. Your ribs keep your heart, lung and stomach safe. And your skull acts ...

a static environment that doesn’t let cells behave as if they are in the human body. Cilia inside the lung-chip. Microscope image courtesy of Emulate, Inc. The organ-chip consists of transparent ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology is not capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells.