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- First synthetic tree mimics transpiration
- Cornell University researchers have created the world's first synthetic tree. So far, it's a very small 'tree' which stands in a palm-sized piece of hydrogel. This 'tree simulates the process of transpiration, the cohesive capillary action that allows trees to wick moisture upward to their highest branches.' Apparently, the scientists...
- Tags: Tree, Water, Hydrogel, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- 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
- A new biopaper for organ printing
- Organ printing is an emerging branch of medicine which uses healthy cells to repair a damaged or diseased organ. But as its name implies, this new medical technology needs ink, paper and a printer. Now, a new hydrogel -- or biopaper -- developed at the University of Utah has been...
- Tags: hydrogel, cell, organ
- Blog posts 2005-11-07
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- How do you say the results are the same maggot?
- Two studies published in the British Medical Journal show that using maggots against bacteria is no more or less effective (or cost-effective) than using a hydrogel. So what's your headline? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Bacteria, Therapy, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- 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
- Printing organs on demand?
- Every year, pharmaceutical companies invest many millions of dollars to test drugs that will never reach market while the number of patients waiting for organ transplants continues to increase. Would it be possible to create human tissues to help to solve both problems? A research team from the University of...
- Tags: Team, Organ, Cell, Printing, MU, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-23
- 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
- Nanomagnetic sponges to clean artwork?
- About a year ago, I told you that Italian scientists had developed the nanoscience of art restoration. Now, the same team from Florence has found a very innovative and gentle way 'for cleaning and conserving priceless oil paintings, marble sculptures and other works of art,' according to the American Chemical...
- Tags: Magnet, Gel, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- Bioengineered hearts are coming fast
- According to researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M), we can now engineer prototypes of all cardiovascular structures: heart muscle, tri-leaflet valves, blood vessels, cell-based cardiac pumps and tissue engineered ventricles. In fact, they wrote that its possible today to engineer the heart piece by piece. But they also noted...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-04-01
- Blue crab nanosensor to fight terrorism
- A substance found in crab shells called chitosan has very useful properties. For example, it has been used in bandages to stop bleeding. But now, researchers at the University of Maryland have used the chitosan from blue crabs living in Chesapeake Bay as a component of a nanoscale sensor system...
- Tags: University of Maryland, substance
- Blog posts 2006-07-30
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