Audio
Archive
2013
January
February
March
April
May
2012
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2011
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2010
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2009
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2008
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2007
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Subscribe
Jun. 10, 2011
Video Pick: Growing Hearts and Bones
|
|
Tweet |
| Bioengineer Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, of Columbia University, says that while her lab focuses on growing tissue, the cells are the real tissue engineers. Her job is to provide them with the right environment to let them do their job. Science Friday stopped by her lab to see the cells in action. |
Produced by Flora Lichtman, Correspondent and Managing Editor, Video
Guests
-
Flora Lichtman
Author, "Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us" (Wiley, 2011)
Multimedia Editor,
NPR's Science Friday
New York, New York
FEATURED READING
Brilliant Blunders
by Mario Livio
ADVERTISEMENT
RELATED BLOG POSTS
- Meet Susan Barry, Neurobiologist and 3D Visionary
Susan Barry could only see in two dimensions until age 48, when her life changed forever.
- Smuggled Dinosaurs, Sick Sea Otters, Hairy Tongues, and More
Each week we’ll round up links to science stories or studies that blow our mind, tickle our funny bone, or generally strike our ...
- Meet Larry Rosenblum, Perceptual Psychologist and Magician
This scientist studies human powers of perception that we might not even know we have.
- Meet Jean Berko Gleason, a Founding Mom of Psycholinguistics
Jean Berko Gleason studies the way we acquire language, how we lose it, and everything in between.
Discussion