«Most
of the studies in this
area have focused on the heart and the coronary arteries; no one has really looked at other parts
of the
vascular system, in particular the carotid arteries,» says Jonathan D. Newman, MD, MPH a cardiologist at NYU Langone Medical Center in the Department
of Medicine, Leon H. Charney Division
of Cardiology and the study's lead author.
«These self - healing, bioinspired actuators bring us another step closer to being able to build entirely soft - bodied robots, which may help to bridge the gap between humans and robots and open entirely new application
areas in
medicine and beyond,» said Wyss Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor
of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Boston Children's Hospital
Vascular Biology Program, as well as Professor
of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).