Bench to Bedside

Eat Your Heart Out: Growing Heart Tissue on Spinach Leaves

Apr 21, 2017 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Vine_leaf_-_Pinot_noir.jpg

By Allyson Roberts Regenerative medicine is one of the hottest topics in biomedical science right now. Multiple labs are using inventive approaches to try and find ways to create body parts in the lab. In the United States alone, there are over 120,000 people currently on the waiting list for an organ transplant, and an […]

Why does the “Bench-To-Bedside” path progress so slowly?

Feb 27, 2017 www.iamdrwanderlust.com/?p=184

By Yitong Li One of the biggest funding agencies in the United States, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends about $32 billion every year to support scientific research that contributes to the wellbeing of Americans. If you consider the annual household income in US (~$55k), the NIH budget is equivalent to the total annual […]

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