New Coating Process May Prevent Body From Rejecting Medical Implants
...sponse to foreign material -whether it's a medical implant or a bullet - is to wall it off with scar-liketiss...dles," Ratner says. "The next step is to see if an implant coatedusing our process actually turns on healing in the body." Shi has been recognized by t...New Biomaterial May Replace Arteries, Knee Cartilage
...in humans. "The goal is to get the medical implant out to help patients," said leadinventor Dr. David...ich is suspect in inflammatory disorders in breast implant patients. Second,it has enough mechanical strength that it will not burst under normalphysiological ...Radioactive Beads Latest Weapon In Fighting Cancer In Dogs, Cats
...very. It's much harder on the animalthan doing the implant therapy." Chun said not all tumors can receive the implant, but that it is a goodtreatment option for a lot of different tumors. "It seems to be as successful as more conventional forms of therapy," Chun said."But we need two or three years from now ......joint ordental implants in the future by improving implant success rates, hasteningpostoperative recovery and improving quality of life," Puleo said....Transplanted Skeletal Muscle Mimics Heart Muscle; Helps Failing Heart Pump, Duke Researchers Say
...researchers at otheruniversities who are trying to implant fetal muscle cells into hearts tostimulate growth," Taylor said. But, she added, that idea is not practicalbecause there is no ready supply of fetal tissue and it could cause an immunereaction. The advantage of using muscle cells from each patient is...NIST Machine To Aid In Making Better Artificial Joints
...ll be to use it to study howpotential, alternative implant materials hold up under the effects of motion,environment and a variety of stress-loading cycles that represent thephysical routines of different people). The four companies that supported the development of the accelerated weardevice and inten...New Technology Deposits Bone-Regenerating Materials On The Surface Of Implants
...new coatings are designed to extend the life ofthe implant by stimulating the growth of new bone, which bonds...the naturalbone surrounding it, thus anchoring the implant more firmly in place. Dr. Campbell presided at a symposium at which she and nine other scientistsre...FDA Approves Hopkins-Designed Implants To Restore Lost Voices
...eir design,Cummings and Flint had to hand-carve an implant for each patient usingsialastic, a less sturdy material. Having the pre-cut hydroxylapatite implantshas cut their operating room time in half and helped reduce post-operativeswelling. Cummings and Flint perform about 80 of the procedures eac...Bears Cubed: Virginia Tech Studies Three Bears, And Three Bears, And Three More Bears
...tion," the bear expert notes. "Our bears appear to implant beforedenning but in the wild that may vary from year to year." Gestation is a short 60 days, and cubs are born in February while the sow is inhibernation. The cubs nurse every 30 to 40 minutes, while the mother continuesto sleep. Vaughan tracks this......e size of a contact lens, a miniature, closed-loop implant that could monitor its own flow rate to ensure a steady stream of medicine. The pump is still considered large as a microelectromechanical system, in which sensors, actuators and electronics are merged onto a single silicon wafer. The next step ...