by Jean-Louis Piraux | May 19, 2017 | Health
Engineers and biologists at MIT have teamed up to design a new “living material” — a tough, stretchy, biocompatible sheet of hydrogel injected with live cells that are genetically programmed to light up in the presence of certain chemicals. In a paper published this...
by Gorka Varela | Mar 8, 2016 | Health
According to research published in Nature Materials, a team led by scientists from the RIKEN Centre for Emergent Matter Science, in Japan, has developed a hydrogel that works like an artificial muscle. The team has also managed to use the polymer to build an L-shaped...
by Gorka Varela | Feb 16, 2016 | Health
According to research published in Nature Materials, a team led by scientists from the RIKEN Centre for Emergent Matter Science, in Japan, has developed a hydrogel that works like an artificial muscle. The team has also managed to use the polymer to build an L-shaped...
by Gorka Varela | Feb 12, 2016 | Health
The ‘smart wound dressing’ releases medicine in response to changes in skin temperature and can be designed to light up if medicine is running low. When the dressing is applied to a highly flexible area, such as the elbow or knee, it stretches with the body, keeping...
