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Golden age for Hydrogels?: Hydrogels are familiar to anyone in medicine. My daughter wears hydrogel contact lenses. They're also used in breast implants, for dressing wounds, even as miniature glucose sensors. But they are only just coming into their own, as drug delivery mechanisms. Covalon...; Tags: Patent, Hydrogels, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-28

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Golden age for Hydrogels?: Golden age for hydrogels?My late professor......Toyoichi Tanaka was the inventor/discoverer of "smart hydrogels".It was a tremendous loss to science when he died prematurely of a heart attack in 2000 at only 54.He was also an extremely nice person and great teacher.JJB; Tags: Golden Age; Discussion threads 2008-03-28
Smart holograms to monitor our health?: In a short news release, the Institute of Physics reports that smart holograms, which use materials called hydrogels that shrink or swell in response to local environmental conditions, can be used to monitor many physical conditions than three years ago. These smart holograms could soon be used 'by diabetics to...; Tags: Monitor, Hologram, Health Care, Polymer, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-02-05
Glue for eye tears wins sales approval: HyperBranch Medical of Durham, NC has won CE approval for its OcuSeal liquid ocular bandage, meaning it can be sold outside the U.S. OcuSeal is a liquid hydrogel polymer which becomes a transparent gel 30 seconds after being brushed on to a wet surface. ...; Tags: Wound, Gel, Approval, Microsoft Windows CE, Sales Strategy, Handhelds, Thin Clients, Sales Force Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-08
Biomimetic artificial corneas: There are at least 10 million people worldwide who are blind due to damaged or diseased corneas. Right now, the only way to help people affected with corneal blindness requires a corneal transplant. This implies to take a cornea from a dead person and this is not always successful: there...; Tags: cornea, hydrogel; Blog posts 2006-09-19