Sentences with phrase «biodegradable polymers»

Tissue engineered tri-leaflet heart valve — preliminary fabrication of biodegradable polymer scaffolds.

An endowed professor of pediatric cardiology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Levy had been working with his team on biodegradable polymer nanoparticles infused with iron oxide.

Researchers at Penn State have combined the two approaches by taking biodegradable polymer nanoparticles encapsulated with cancer - fighting drugs and incorporating them into immune cells to create a smart, targeted system to attack cancers of specific types.

«Because our materials will be made from biodegradable polymer, they will dissolve and disappear after the stent is surgically placed into the patient's esophagus,» said Kang.

«These nanomedicines are developed using biodegradable polymers that can break - up over time in the body using the bodies natural mechanisms, and can be nanoengineered using scale - able chemistries and nanotechnologies, which ultimately can facilitate their rapid translation to the clinic,» said co-lead author Nazila Kamaly, PhD, instructor in the Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials at BWH and HMS.

Researchers investigate new biodegradable polymer lens materials that could ensure the proper delivery of medicine for treating glaucoma, chronic dry eye, corneal ulcers and other ocular ailments

Biodegradable polymers applied in tissue engineering research: A review.

A bioengineer in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University has received a $ 141,743 grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to develop a novel biodegradable polymer stent that will be designed to prevent complications while at the same time serving as a drug delivery system for esophageal cancer therapy.

Electro - drawn drug - loaded biodegradable polymer microneedles as a viable route to hypodermic injection R. Vecchione, S. Coppola, E. Esposito, C. Casale, V. Vespini, S. Grilli, P. Ferraro, and P. A. Netti Advanced Functional Materials 24, 3515â $ «3523 (2014).

Wine - making, meet renewable energy production: a team of undergraduate engineering students from Oregon State University has developed an environmentally friendly, biodegradable polymer derived from biodiesel and wine - making byproducts that could replace polystyrene foam meat trays in supermarkets and be used in the manufacture of fire logs, furniture and other consumer goods.

We obtained high - quality cardiac tissue - like constructs (CTLCs) by cultivating hiPSC - CMs on aligned nanofibers made of biodegradable polymer.

Other key trends include the growing use of sustainable packaging based on biodegradable polymers, bio-derived materials and recycled plastics, and down gauging films for cost reduction.»

Using biodegradable polymers, the team created a spongelike scaffold with micrometer - sized pores, dosed it with growth hormones in different places, and seeded it with stem cells.

While Berkland was working on his Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, faculty members there started a company that incorporated Berkland's research on fabricating micro - and nanostructures from biodegradable polymers.

In related work for drug - release systems built from biocompatible and biodegradable polymers, IMRE has developed injectable hydrogels to deliver drugs.

In an attempt to develop a sunscreen that would not soak into the skin, Girardi and his team encapsulated the molecules of the common UV absorber padimate O in nanoparticles of a biodegradable polymer that binds to proteins on skin cells.

The results of a study presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2016) showed that tiny particles made of a biodegradable polymer (BNPs — biodegradable polymer nanoparticles) have the potential to enable early detection and efficient long - term treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with minimal side effects.

Made of biodegradable polymers, the antibiotics are gradually released over a period of weeks and eventually the microspheres dissolve, allowing sufficient time to prevent or treat an infection while reducing the likelihood of additional surgeries.

Using rice starch, researchers have made sustainable, biodegradable polymers that could be used in food packaging

In the W - TENG, plastic was swapped for a multipart fiber made of graphene — a single layer of graphite, or pencil lead — and a biodegradable polymer known as poly - lactic acid (PLA).

The aim is to make a synthetic skin substitute that is based on biodegradable polymers and peptides which can be reconstituted with the patients own cells.

These molecules were delivered encapsulated in microspheres or in nanospheres, even smaller than the former, comprising a biocompatible, biodegradable polymer: Poly Lactic - co-glycolic Acid (PLGA), which allows them to be released continuously and gradually.

«Our experimental model represents a promising technique to culture human liver cells and prepare them for transplantation on a biodegradable polymer scaffold into the peritoneal cavity,» concluded Dr. Pollok.

In the W - TENG, plastic was swapped for a multipart fiber made of graphene — a single layer of graphite, or pencil lead — and a biodegradable polymer known as polylactic acid (PLA).

The sponge is a biodegradable polymer, which slowly breaks down in the body, releasing cisplatin in very high concentrations to the tissues in the surgery site.

The process involves feeding methane to bacteria, which then produce a biodegradable polymer (polyhydroxyalkanoate, or PHA).

With every piece, we minimize material and maximize comfort, experimenting, for example, with materials like regenerated leather from shoe production scraps and biodegradable polymers, a substitute for plastic components.

The biodegradable polymer is resistant, making the show durable, and elastic.