Štítek "Biological Engineering"

Invention of teeny-tiny organic films could enable new electronics

11.11.2019 | University of Chicago | www.uchicago.edu

The first cell phone, released in 1983, was the size of a brick and weighed two-and-a-half pounds. The newest Apple Watch, released this fall, weighs 1.1 ounces.

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Invention of teeny-tiny organic films could enable new electronics

Living Skin Can Now be 3D-Printed With Blood Vessels Included

04.11.2019 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | www.rpi.edu

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a way to 3D print living skin, complete with blood vessels. The advancement, published online today in Tissue Engineering Part A, is a…

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Living Skin Can Now be 3D-Printed With Blood Vessels Included

New smart skin changes color using a trick learned from chameleons

11.09.2019 | National Geographic | www.nationalgeographic.com

Chameleons make changing look easy. In just a few moments, these lizards can shift the hue of their skin to intimidate predators, camouflage themselves, or find mates. Scientists have spent decades…

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New smart skin changes color using a trick learned from chameleons

A swifter way towards 3D-printed organs

09.09.2019 | Wyss Institute | wyss.harvard.edu

20 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant in the United States, and while more than 30,000 transplants are now performed annually, there are over 113,000 patients currently on organ…

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New hydrogels show promise in treating bone defects

21.08.2019 | UCLA | www.ucla.edu

Bioengineers and dentists from the UCLA School of Dentistry have developed a new hydrogel that is more porous and effective in promoting tissue repair and regeneration compared to hydrogels that are…

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New hydrogels show promise in treating bone defects

Customised silicone heart valves

24.07.2019 | ETH Zurich | ethz.ch

Scientists at ETH Zurich and the South African company Strait Access Technologies are using 3D printing to produce custom-made artificial heart valves from silicone. This could help meet an ageing…

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Researchers develop viable, environmentally-friendly alternative to Styrofoam

10.05.2019 | Washington State University | wsu.edu

Washington State University researchers have developed an environmentally-friendly, plant-based material that for the first time works better than Styrofoam for insulation.

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Researchers develop viable, environmentally-friendly alternative to Styrofoam

Nanofiber-hydrogel composite allows soft tissue to regenerate

03.05.2019 | Medical Xpress | www.medicalxpress.com

A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has developed a gel that, when injected into test animals, allowed new soft tissue to grow—replacing lost tissue.

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Nanofiber-hydrogel composite allows soft tissue to regenerate

New 3-D printing approach makes cell-scale lattice structures

27.03.2019 | MIT | www.mit.edu

A new way of making scaffolding for biological cultures could make it possible to grow cells that are highly uniform in shape and size, and potentially with certain functions. The new approach uses…

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New 3-D printing approach makes cell-scale lattice structures

New graphene-based device is first step toward ultrasensitive biosensors

08.03.2019 | University of Minnesota | cse.umn.edu

Researchers in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering have developed a unique new device using the wonder material graphene that provides the first step toward ultrasensitive…

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