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Tissue Engineering: Blood Vessels

Pioneering method to engineer blood vessels from natural tissue
“University of Melbourne researchers have developed a fast, inexpensive and scalable method [MORE]

Hydrogel Oxygen Reservoirs for Nerve Regeneration

Hydrogel oxygen reservoirs increase functional integration of neural stem cell grafts by meeting metabolic demands
“Here we [Australian scientists] engineer a [MORE]

BioPen for Cartilage Regeneration

Bio-Pen for cartilage repair
Australian bioengineers have built a device called “the BioPen,” which extrudes a hydrogel material infused with fat-derived [MORE]

Revenge of the Germs

Staphylococcus_epidermidis
This month marks the centennial of The Great War’s ending. But it also recalls the “Great Influenza” when somewhere between [MORE]

Quantum Dot Biosensors

Quantum Dots
Quantum dots are silicon semiconductor particles that emit specific light frequencies when electricity or light is applied to them. [MORE]

Implantable Brain “Stentrode” for Controlling Prosthetics

Stentrode
Most developments in building brain-machine interfaces involve implantation on the brain surface itself. Australian researchers however have designed a prototype [MORE]

Clot-Busting Nanodevice

Blood Clot
Ever wonder why an announcement for a new drug or device often says that it may take another five [MORE]

Supercomputing Human Diseases

Medical researchers and physicians at the University of Melbourne (state of Victoria) and IBM’s Research Computational Biology group in [MORE]