Bioscientists are moving closer to 3-D-printed artificial tissues to help heal bone and cartilage typically damaged in sports-related injuries to knees, ankles and elbows.
Materials Science
Mar 28, 2019
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Biochips have been developed at TU Wien (Vienna), on which tissue can be produced and examined. This allows supplying the tissue with different substances in a very controlled way.
Biotechnology
Nov 13, 2018
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Tissue engineering is the future of medicine. The Polymer Materials for Tissue Engineering and Transplantology Laboratory of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) has created unique polymeric materials ...
Biochemistry
Aug 7, 2018
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Constructing biological tissues, such as skin, muscle, or bone, in customized shapes is now one step closer. Researchers at EMBL have succeeded in guiding the folding and thus shape of tissues with optogenetics: a technique ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 18, 2018
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Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers have successfully treated a cancerous tumor using a "nano-factory" – a synthetic cell that produces anti-cancer proteins within the tumor tissue. The research, which was ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 13, 2018
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Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a new method to 3D-print laboratory- grown cells to form living structures.
Materials Science
Aug 15, 2017
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Houston Methodist researchers have identified an immune pathway that promotes the formation of a cell that can develop into new tissues and organs.
Medical research
Mar 9, 2017
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Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have 3D printed a lifelike, functional blood vessel network that could pave the way toward artificial organs and regenerative therapies.
Nanomaterials
Mar 2, 2017
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This cotton candy machine has a higher calling than satisfying a sweet tooth. It's whipping up polymer fibers that may one day be a key ingredient in life-saving medical technologies.
Materials Science
Jan 31, 2017
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Researchers, particularly those in the medical field, have been searching for a way to combine the properties of liquid crystallinity with those of hydrogels.
Polymers
Jan 11, 2016
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