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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]

Nanoparticles with Chemical Reaction-Release Insulin

Collaborators at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed and tested [MORE]

Nanolithography for Biosensors

Several developments have come forward recently in designing parallel channel microfluidic chips that can be used as biosensors.  This [MORE]

Unzipping DNA

One of the, as yet, unfulfilled dreams of gene therapy is to “unzip” a section of targeted DNA and [MORE]

Multiplexed Microneedle Biosensor Assay

NC State Microneedle
Research collaborators in North Carolina, New Mexico and California have developed a microneedle biosensor that loads electrochemicals [MORE]

Gallium Nitride as a Biocompatible Material

Cell Growth on GaN with Coated Peptides
Researchers at North Carolina State University and Purdue University have carried out biocompatibility studies [MORE]