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Tag: Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
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Health
Portable clotting agent slows internal bleeding by 97% in mice
An injectable clotting agent has been created that can reduce blood loss by 97 percent in mice models.
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Health
A solid vaccine for liquid tumors
A new study presents an alternative treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that has the potential to eliminate AML cells completely.
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Science & Tech
A SWIFTer way to build organs
A new technique called SWIFT (sacrificial writing into functional tissue) ultimately may be used therapeutically to repair and replace human organs with lab-grown versions containing patients’ own cells.
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Science & Tech
A gentle grip on gelatinous creatures
To study jellyfish and other fragile marine life without damaging them, researchers developed ultra-soft underwater grippers that catch and release jellyfish without harm.
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Science & Tech
Exposing how pancreatic cancer does its dirty work
New research has found that pancreatic cancer actively destroys nearby blood vessels and replaces them with cancerous cells, blocking chemotherapy from reaching tumors. This insight could lead to new treatments that act by preventing cancer’s colonization of blood vessels.
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Science & Tech
Yeasts get a boost from solar power
Harvard researchers have started to combine bacteria with semiconductor technology that, similar to solar panels on a roof, harvests energy from light and, when coupled to the microbes’ surface, boosts their biosynthetic potential.
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Campus & Community
Wood recognized with Planck-Humboldt Medal
Harvard engineer and roboticist Robert Wood is honored with the newly created Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for his role and accomplishments in the field of soft robotics.
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Science & Tech
Butterfly wings inspire air-purification improvements
The Wyss Institute is developing a new type of coating for catalytic converters that, inspired by the nanoscale structure of a butterfly’s wing, can dramatically reduce the cost and improve the performance of air-purification technologies, making them more accessible.
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Science & Tech
Origami-inspired robot combines precision with speed
A Harvard team has created the milliDelta robot, which can operate with high speed, force, and micrometer precision, making it ideal for retinal microsurgeries performed on the human eye.
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Science & Tech
Microscopy taps power of programmable DNA
With a super-resolution microscopy, a team of researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute has leveraged the power of programmable DNA.
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Science & Tech
Printing metal in midair
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed a laser-assisted direct ink writing method that prints microscopic metallic, free-standing 3-D structures in one step.
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Campus & Community
George Ledlie Prize awarded to Joanna Aizenberg
Professor Joanna Aizenberg has won the George Ledlie Prize, which is awarded once every two years.
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Science & Tech
SLIPS inspires second generation
In a study reported in Nature Biotechnology, a team of Harvard scientists and engineers has developed a new surface coating for medical devices using materials already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The researchers noted that the coating repelled blood from more than 20 medically relevant substrates (glass, plastic, and metal) and also…
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Science & Tech
Wiping out sepsis
A new device inspired by the human spleen and developed by a team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering may radically transform the way doctors treat sepsis.
