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Wound Dressings of “Cell Sheets”

Tailored cell sheet engineering
For surgeries in spatially complex sites such as the middle ear and small intestine, tissue engineers at [MORE]

Injectable Hydrogel to Repair Heart Damage

Cardiac tissue repair with injected gel
“Ventrix, a spin-off company of the University of California San Diego, has developed a special [MORE]

Light, Hydrogel and OsciBots

Light-pushed robot
Here’s an update on “Fantastic Voyage.”  “Engineers at University of Los Angles have come up with a tiny new [MORE]

Optical Tomography Bioprinting

Volumetric bioprinting process
Bioprinting today is performed as an additive manufacturing process—layer by layer.  Researchers at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) now show [MORE]

Hydrogel with Tunable Bioactivity

Healing gel
“A hydrogel that incorporates billions of bacteriophages forms a material that is self-healing and also offers antibacterial services for [MORE]

A Hydrogel Bandage

 
Harvard hydrogel bandage
Harvard bioengineers report this: “The idea is to create a hydrogel that can cover a wound, help stop [MORE]

Hydrogels with Flexible Electronics

Hydrogels with flexible electronics
“Hydrogel” entered the biomedical lexicon 125 years ago, and its variations now include uses for wound healing, [MORE]

3D Printed Air Sacs Mimic Lungs

3D printed lung air sac
Using technology named “Stereolithographic Apparatus for Tissue Engineering” a Rice University lab has 3D-printed a life-like [MORE]

Luring Stem Cells into Wounds

Hydrogel with biomolecules for healing
Specially engineered hydrogels can be loaded with growth factors that attract stem cells for wound healing, [MORE]

Paper Organs, Ready to Grow

3D printing paper organs
Here’s a novel idea: create paper models of organs and tumors, complete with blood vessels, nerves and [MORE]

Soft Tissue Substitutes

Rabbit fat pad regeneration
Trauma, tumor removal, congenital defects and aging can result in soft tissue loss that require reconstructive surgery.  [MORE]

3D Printing Multivascular Networks with Biocompatible Hydrogels

Functional vascular functional topologies
This piece from researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and four university labs “. . . [MORE]

Ultrasound Activation of Bone Regeneration

 
Bone regeneration through ultrasound control of genes
University of Michigan bioengineers have shown a new method for regenerating bone and soft [MORE]

Ingestible Digestion Monitor

Ingestible pill monitor
Ingestible sensors have to work in a tough neighborhood—the stomach. For that reason, MIT engineers have created a [MORE]