Osteoarthritis is a painful condition in which cartilage—the protective cushioning between the joints—gradually breaks down. The progressive joint disease, which affects more than 32 million people in the United States, can ...
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A research team has developed an innovative injectable adhesive hydrogel for bone regeneration. This hydrogel utilizes harmless visible light to simultaneously achieve cross-linking and mineralization without the need for ...
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What does it take to design a new needle for medical use? When the needle needs to be much thinner and sharper than any commercially existing needle and designed to deliver treatments to a previously inaccessible tissue, ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Bioengineers at Caltech have developed a new imaging technology that could offer surgeons a fast and cost-effective way to image tissue samples in the operating room to determine whether the entirety of a tumor has been removed ...
Dec 18, 2024
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Two million bone transplants are performed worldwide yearly, including half a million in the United States alone. Yet, a QUT-led study has found surgeons are slow to adopt newly developed biomaterials or tissue-engineered ...
Dec 17, 2024
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A research team has developed an innovative photocurrent-responsive implant surface to accelerate bone-to-implant integration after orthopedic surgery. The cutting-edge coating has been shown to shorten the integration time ...
Dec 13, 2024
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When women are pregnant and nurse their babies, their bodies change and various organs, such as the breasts or the immune system, are adapted to ensure the health of both mother and child. This happens throughout evolution ...
Dec 4, 2024
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Three-dimensional (3D) printing isn't just a way to produce material products quickly. It also offers researchers a way to develop replicas of human tissue that could be used to improve human health, such as building organs ...
Dec 3, 2024
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A new study by researchers at the University of Galway and the University of Limerick suggests that electrical stimulation might be essential for tendons to maintain their health, offering fresh possibilities in tendon repair ...
Nov 20, 2024
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Researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Nottingham have developed a biocooperative material that harnesses blood clotting and peptide self-assembly to engineer personalized regenerative implants ...
