By Grace Kim
Approximately 21 people die a day from waiting for organs, and about 4,000 people are added to the national waiting list every month. The demand for organs is dramatically increasing, but the supply is increasingly diminishing.
A lab at Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Imaging in North Carolina offers a potential solution: Bioprinting. Bioprinting operates similarly to 3-D printing but the result of bioprinting is the opportunity to produce …

By Kaitlyn Schaeffer
Every year, thousands of people in the United States die waiting for organs. In an effort to inform legislation that might reduce the current organ shortage, researchers at several national universities undertook studies that examined whether certain circumstantial factors might influence people’s tendency to become an organ donor.
Judd Kessler from the University of Pennsylvania and Alvin Roth from Stanford analyzed data collected from California residents following a change …

By Grace Kim
In vitro fertilization, otherwise known as IVF, is a reproductive technology used as a means to help women get pregnant. As outlined by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, IVF requires five basic steps. First, stimulation is required to boost ovulation in order to produce more than one egg. Then, the eggs are removed from the woman’s body. The eggs are then inseminated with sperm, leading to fertilization. …