Meet the Smart Bandages that changes colour when they detect infections
The University of Bath is leading a trail of smart bandages using samples from burns patients from four UK hospitals. The bandage works by changing colour when it detects an infection. Smart Bandage technology would allow doctors to detect infection earlier. This would improve treatment for burns patients...
Arthritis sufferers offered hope by bio-printed cow cartilage
A new 3D printing technique from Penn States Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has produced cartilage from strands of bioink By substituting strands of cow cartilage for ink in a 3D bioprinter, engineers at Penn State have created a process that may one day allow cartilage...
US unanimously approves CRISPR in humans
The National Institute of Health’s Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, a US ethics and biosafety panel, has permitted research to allow the use of CRISPR/cas9 in creating genetically altered immune cells to assault three types of cancers. Up to now it was thought that the primary human use of CRISPR could...