by Patrick Blit | Aug 6, 2013
The promise and potential of stem cell therapy has garnered much attention from the media over the years. Countless stories have been reported of groundbreaking stem cell research and that these discoveries are likely to change the way we conduct health care....
by Stacey Johnson | May 3, 2013
. It was big news this week when doctors at Children’s Hospital of Illinois performed the first successful pediatric transplant in the U.S. of a regenerated trachea using a synthetic scaffold. The Canadian father and Korean mother of two-year-old Hannah Genevieve...
by Patrick Blit | Mar 26, 2013
When I was a child, I would sit on my living room floor playing with my Lego set for hours on end. I recall building police cars, giant spaceships and all kinds of other amazing structures. My weekend mornings always began the same way: I would dump my box of Legos...
by Angela C. H. McDonald | May 29, 2012
Nanotechnology has been a buzzword in the medical technology community for some time. It is defined as the manipulation and use of microscopic structures at the molecular scale, generally 1-100 nanometres in size (1 nanometre is 1 billionth of a metre, which...
by Roshan Yoganathan | Mar 13, 2012
I’ve been working in the field of biomaterials for over five years now. A short period of time, but nevertheless I’ve noticed that the field has evolved considerably. Since the inception of “biologically compatible materials,” their capabilities, functionalities and...
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