Tag: materials science
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RNA Injections Shown to Rebuild Damaged Heart Muscle
Engineers and medical researchers developed a technique to deliver genetic material into damaged heart muscle that in lab mice regrows heart cells.
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Artificial Muscles Designed for Soft Robotics
Engineering researchers created artificial muscles for robotics using principles from origami, or Japanese paper folding, with high strength and low-cost materials.
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Process Devised for Continuous Stem Cell Production
Researchers in the U.K. developed a process for closed-loop continuous production and collection of large quantities of stem cells for therapies.
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Thin, Flexible, Lower-Cost Motion Sensors Developed
Engineers in the U.S. and France created and tested motion-detecting sensors more flexible and thinner than today’s sensors, and made with a low-cost process.
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Contact Lens Devised to Measure Glaucoma Eye Pressure
Engineers in the U.K. developed a soft contact lens that in a clinical study shows it can reliably track changes in pressure inside the eye, a key factor in glaucoma.
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Gas-Jet Printing Process Developed for Medications
A team of material scientists and biomedical engineers designed techniques for producing pharmaceuticals on demand by printing drugs as thin films.
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3-D Organ Printing Company Gains Seed Funds
A start-up enterprise seeking to create replacement human tissue and organs with three-dimensional printing is raising $1.8 million in seed capital.
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Simple Cell Programming Designed for Gene Therapies
A simpler technique using nanoscale particles was shown in lab tests to deliver messenger RNA to reprogram cells for gene therapies, including changes in T-cells in the immune system now approved to treat a type of leukemia.
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3-D Printing Process Developed for Living Tissue
Researchers in the U.K. devised 3-D printing techniques for human and animal cells to produce functioning tissue with multiple types of cells.
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Injectable Patch Designed to Repair Heart Tissue
An injectable soft mesh patch seeded with cardiac cells is shown to fix damaged heart tissue in tests with lab animals, as an alternative to open-heart surgery.