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...

The relative ease of identifying microRNAs and their increasing recognition as important regulators of organogenesis motivate the development of methods to efficiently assess microRNA function during organ morphogenesis. In this context, embryonic organ explants provide a reliable and reproducible system that recapitulates some of the important early morphogenetic processes during organ develop...

3D bioprinting of tissues and organs is game changer promising technology in medicine. It has also great potential to be substitution animal models as artificial tissue or organ platforms can used for transplantation the patient directly.

Of the patients with end-stage cardiomyopathy on a heart transplant list, 95% do not receive a donor heart. Due to this severe shortage of donor organs, an artificial replacement heart has been pursued for several decades. To date, 10 patients have received an Abiocor artificial replacement heart (Abiomed, Inc, Danvers, Mass), the latest artificial heart device available. Anesthetic management ...

At a recent Keystone Symposium on 'Developmental Biology and Tissue Engineering', new findings in areas ranging from stem cell differentiation, embryonic pattern formation and organ regeneration to engineered cell microenvironments, synthetic biomaterials and artificial tissue fabrication were described. Although these new advances were exciting, this symposium clarified that biologists and eng...

Single- and multiorgan transplantations for the treatment of terminal cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic and renal diseases gain therapeutic importance and transplantation research using mammalian models of isolated perfused organs resembles a major field for the improvement of transplantation techniques. We established a new method of multiple organ harvesting from slaughterhouse pigs which may be us...

This paper presents simulations of long-term co-evolution in simple artificial ecosystems composed of different plant species. Artificial plants and plant communities, evolving in a 3D environment, are based on a multi-agent model. This multi-agent approach allows to define communication processes existing at plant and organ levels. A model of a particular chemical interaction between plants is...

In nature, fish have the ability to localize prey, school, navigate, etc. using the lateral-line organ [1]. Here we present the use of biomimetic artificial hair-based flow-sensors arranged as lateral-line system in combination with beamforming techniques for dipole source localization in air. Modelling and measurement results show the artificial lateral-line ability to image the position of di...