While You Were at the Bench: Week 46

November 15, 2012, 8:18 pm

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Researchers at Stanford University have created an organic polymer that is pressure sensitive and self-healing making this material ideal for artificial skin on biomimetic prostheses.  All the pieces are coming together for Skynet. By incorporating iron oxide (rust) into a unique V-shaped ultrathin film, scientists at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have created a new type of solar cell that can use...

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While You Were at the Bench: Week 48

November 29, 2012, 8:30 pm

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Scientists at Wake Forest University have combined an ink jet printer and an electrospinning machine to fabricate cartlidge using viable tissue.  This printer hybrid is a big step forward in designing three dimensional tissue for implantation in humans. At a separate Skynet facility….errr…I mean University of Waterloo, computational neurobiologists have developed a 2.5 million neuronal model that is...