Vascular diseases such as aneurysms, peripheral artery disease and clots inside blood vessels account for 31% of global deaths. Despite
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Can collagen help fix Injured tendons? These tissue engineers think so.
Tendon injuries can happen in an instant. With a loud pop and a sharp pain, even the most casual athlete’s
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Biomedical engineers grow cardiac patches to help people recover from heart attacks
Patching up a heart needs the help of tiny blood vessels. Aligning dense vascular structures in engineered cardiac patches can
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Engineers develop placenta-on-a-chip to study caffeine transport from mother to fetus
Engineers have used microfluidic technology to create a “placenta-on-a-chip” that models how compounds can be passed from a mother to
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