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Aligning Cells with Ultrasound for Bioprinted Tissues

Ultrasound aligns cell in 3D printed tissue
Biofabrication relies on several means for aligning cells for 3D printed tissues, now including [MORE]

Photonic Biosensor Monitors Oxygen in Organs-on-a-Chip

Biosensor
What tissues of the body do depends on the level of oxygen concentration, and different tissues have various oxygen levels.  [MORE]

Synthetic Beta Cells in a Patch Treatment for Diabetes

Artificial Beta Cells
Biomedical engineers in North Carolina (UNC–NCSU) have developed artificial pancreatic beta cells that automatically secrete insulin as needed.   [MORE]

Capturing a Single Cell with a Magnetic Microbot

Magnetic Microrobot
It may be a while before a surgery takes place within a capillary, but steps toward that possibility are [MORE]

A Synthetic Cardiac Stem Cell

Synthetic Cardiac Stem Cells
University collaborators in North Carolina and Henan, China have created a synthetic cardiac stem cell that has [MORE]

Meltblowing, Spunbonding and Carding in Tissue Engineering

Polyester Fabrics as Tissue Scaffold
Do you remember the polyester clothes John Travolta wore in the 1983 movie “Saturday Night Fever?” [MORE]

Nanoparticle Drug Delivery

Platelet Nanoparticle
Much research is ongoing with nanoparticles for both drug delivery and gene therapy. This piece describes work in two [MORE]

A Wearable EKG

EKG Sensor for Long-Term Monitoring
Quoting directly from this piece: “Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new, wearable [MORE]

GaN Biosensors

Technique Moving Researchers Closer to GaN Biosensor
Graphene may be the best example of how a new material can transform design [MORE]

Necessary Elements for Lab-Produced Organs

Lab-Produced Trachea
Regenerative medicine scientists at Wake Forest University and North Carolina State University have identified five essentials to overcome [MORE]

Body-Attachable Nanowire Sensors

Silver Nanowire Sensor
Capacitance means an ability to store an electrical charge, and engineers at North Carolina State University have developed [MORE]

Vitamin B2 in Two Photon Polymerization for Implantable Devices

NC State 3-D Printing Riboflavin
To treat milder forms of the degenerative eye disease keratoconus ophthalmologists apply a few drops [MORE]

“Soft Robots” and Ionoprinting

Soft Robotics
Artificial muscles, intelligent sensors, biomimetic microbots, micropatterned films, and cell scaffolds are some of the applications engineers at North [MORE]

Injectable “Smart Sponge” for Diabetes Treatment

Smart Spnges
No matter how convenient, daily insulin injections for diabetics are a pain.  To address this, researchers at North Carolina [MORE]