POSTS TAGGED AS medical materials

Dissolving Microneedles

Hypodermic needles pose certain problems in their use-safe disposal for one; unsanitary reuse in spreading disease for another. To [MORE]

Fibronectin Material for Growing New Tissue

In experiments with rats, researchers at the University of Minnesota and Yale University have been able to strip away [MORE]

Silk Sensors

First, you devise an implantable biosensor made of liquid silk and micropatterned gold.  The silk can conform to any [MORE]

New Material for Growing Stem Cells

Most labs that grow stem cells rely on traditional plastic Petri dishes that have a gelatin coated surface for [MORE]

Disposing of Medical Waste

When foreign doctors visit American hospitals they are as likely to be appalled by seemingly needless waste as they [MORE]

First Custom-Fit, Degradable Bone Implant

Researchers at the University Medical Center and the Fraunhofer Institute in Aachen, Germany have teamed up to create a [MORE]

Bayer’s Medical Device Coating Business

While this news piece from Bayer MaterialSciences LLC (Pittsburgh) amounts to an advertisement, it does mention in interesting new [MORE]

How Spiders Store their Silk-Making Proteins

Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, researchers at two German universities were able to unravel the process by which spiders [MORE]