Biomaterials

Brain-Inspired AI Will Enable Future Medical Implants

IEEE Spectrum: Artificial intelligence can identify subtle patterns in data, which is particularly useful in medicine. So far, these have been offline processes—doctors perform a medical test, and data from the test is run through a software program after. A real-time…

Biomaterial-Based Vaccine Against Bacterial Infection

Medgadget: Researchers at the Harvard Wyss Institute have developed a biomaterial-based vaccine technology that could provide prophylactic protection against bacterial infection and septic shock. The technology is delivered as a biomaterial scaffold. Once inside the body, it captures bacterial pathogens…

Novel 3D-printing resin gets into shape for tissue scaffolds

Materials Today: A team of British researchers has demonstrated the viability of 3D-printed tissue scaffolds that harmlessly degrade while promoting tissue regeneration following implantation. These scaffolds showed highly promising tissue-healing performance, including the ability to support cell migration, the ‘ingrowth’ of…

The rise of ferrofluids

Chemistry World: Rocket scientists at the Nasa Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, US, were working day and night. It was 1963 and they were testing hundreds of different combustion chamber designs and injectors for liquid hydrogen engines, trying to iron out problems with combustion stability that could thwart efforts to…