Special Feature     

  


Building Hearts + Lengthening Telomeres:
A conversation with Dr. Doris Taylor
Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett
American Public Media on YouTube. 
(2:30 min, October 30, 2009)

 

In the Press  

Repairing and Replacing Body Parts: What's Next 
Researchers are exploring ways to repair, refurbish, or replace human organs 
"Medicine is saving people who previously we weren't able to save," says Dr. Doris A. Taylor, director of regenerative medicine research at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston. Perhaps the ultimate goal is creating and transplanting a functioning bio-artificial heart. "We're making huge strides," Taylor says, and predicts that a transplant of one kind of bio-artificial solid complex organ will be possible within five years. Read the article from National Geographic Daily News April 15, 2013.

The Journey from Cell Culture to Bioprinting and Beyond
"Perhaps the most incredible example of Decellularized scaffold being developed besides the successful trachea is the development of laboratory grown hearts! Dr. Doris A.Taylor, now of the Texas Heart Institute and her team have developed a process for whole organ decellularization and then reseeding them successfully with cells taken from rat and pig hearts."  From h+ Magazine published by Humanity+, March 27, 2013

Science Fiction Comes Alive as Researchers Grow Organs in Lab 
Under this thought-provoking headline, The Wall Street Journal featured an article on the promise of regenerative medicine and the significant contributions of Dr. Doris Taylor to this emerging field.  WSJ March 22, 2013

Saving lives with help from pigs and cells 
Doris Taylor and her team are building new organs, hoping to reverse disease, maybe even the aging process. On the ninth floor of the Texas Heart Institute's Denton Cooley building, Doris Taylor and her team are building human hearts, with help from pigs and stem cells.

"We think a pig heart is a perfect scaffold for a human heart, based on its structure and size," says Taylor, a passionate scientist with a Ph.D. in pharmacology. — Houston Chronicle Jan. 27, 2013  [Photo credit Michael Paulsen] 

 

THI Chosen as Biorepository for Cardiac Stem Cell Research Network 
THI has been chosen as the Biorepository Core Lab for the CCTRN and will be under the direction of Dr. Doris Taylor and Dr. Adrian Gee. News release December 17, 2012 

Regenerative Medicine Research
Doris Taylor, PhD, FAHA, FACC, one of the world's leading cell therapy and cardiac regeneration scientists, joins THI as Director, Regenerative Medicine Research. News release March 2012

Cardiac regeneration scientist Doris Taylor leaves U of M for Texas
Radio interview. Minnesota Public Radio 
Daily Circuit (7 min), March 7, 2012

Researchers on the verge of growing human hearts
Posted by Siva Nagarajah (August 18, 2011)
The Independent Blogs – Science & Technology

Reloading the Matrix: Doris Taylor Is Growing New Hearts
Blog entry online at CARDIOBRIEF.org  (April 2, 2011)
 

Custom-made hearts, lungs, and kidneys could revolutionize organ transplantation
NOVA scienceNOW  
Program: Replacing Body Parts
PBS Video (13:35 min, January 26, 2011)

Stem cells and the heart
Radio interview with Dr. Doris Taylor and Dr. Eduardo Marban
From Minnesota Public Radio News-Midmorning (12/06/2010)

SoundSeen: "Bioreactors + Building Hope" with Doris Taylor
American Public Media, Program: On Being
Radio broadcast of SoundSeen: Stem Cells, Untold Stories
(52:07 min, September 30, 2010)

More than a year later, heart research still beating strong
News from the Minnesota Daily (April 8, 2009)
University of Minnesota

Team Creates Rat Heart Using Cells of Baby Rats
From the Health section in the New York Times
(January 14, 2008)

To mend a failing heart
Press release from
Nature Medicine
(February 2008)

 

Heart Maker, researcher Doris Taylor
Face to Face article. Minnesota Medicine magazine, May 2007

Profile: Doris Taylor, Assistant Research Professor
From the Biotechnology Institute at Biotechinstitute.org. (PDF)
  

A Book For Age 10 and Up

Doris Taylor: Growing a Beating Heart 
With Lori Mortensen
Published by KidHaven, October 2009
Available from Amazon.

  

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Updated April 2013