[Artificial organs production].

Artificial Organs 2017: A Year in Review.

In this Editor's Review, articles published in 2017 are organized by category and summarized. We provide a brief reflection of the research and progress in artificial organs intended to advance and better human life while providing insight for continued application of these technologies and methods. Artificial Organs continues in the original mission of its founders "to foster communications in...

Preparation of ethanol-enriched, bicarbonate-based hemodialysates.

We describe a method to produce bicarbonate-based dialysates containing approximately 100 mg/dl ethanol by introducing the alcohol into one of the dialysate concentrate solutions geared for the production of bicarbonate-based dialysates.

3D Printing of Organs-On-Chips

Organ-on-a-chip engineering aims to create artificial living organs that mimic the complex and physiological responses of real organs, in order to test drugs by precisely manipulating the cells and their microenvironments. To achieve this, the artificial organs should to be microfabricated with an extracellular matrix (ECM) and various types of cells, and should recapitulate morphogenesis, cell...

Neural Sub-Symbolic Reasoning

The sub-symbolical representation often corresponds to a pattern that mirrors the way the biological sense organs describe the world. Sparse binary vectors can describe sub-symbolic representation, which can be efficiently stored in associative memories. According to the production system theory, we can define a geometrically based problemsolving model as a production system operating on sub-sy...

From society to federation: international collaboration in artificial organs research.

Mass Production of Mesenchymal Stem Cells — Impact of Bioreactor Design and Flow Conditions on Proliferation and Differentiation

Stem cells have enormous potential in health and medical research due to their ability to differentiate into specialized cells and to self-renew. Applications can be seen in cell-based therapies, e.g. for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, type I diabetes, arthritis, burn victims, and cardiovascular diseases, as well as in tissue engineering of artificial organs, development and testing of d...