Medical

When applied to venous stasis wounds, borate glass nanofibers (above) developed at Missouri S&T and produced by the Mo-Sci Corporation appear to speed the healing process in a recent 12-person human trial. Credit Peter Wray; ACerS. (click image for high-resolution version)

Videos of the week: Successful wound healing with borate glass nanofibers

By / April 28, 2011

As reported on in the just-published May issue of the Bulletin of The American Ceramic Society, the Mo-Sci Corporation recently announced its development of a novel and inexpensive wound care…

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Sensitive sensor-packed microchip and new analytical model could test 100,000 protein–drug interactions in minutes

By / April 22, 2011

A microchip with a nanosensor array (orange squares) is shown with a different protein (various colors) attached to each sensor. Four proteins of a potential medication (blue Y-shapes), with magnetic…

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Rolla hospital’s cancer institute named for ceramist Delbert Day

By / January 13, 2011

Ted Day, left, with father Delbert Day. Nice honors for a good guy! The Phelps County Regional Medical Center in Rolla, Mo., announced yesterday that it is naming its new cancer…

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Germany’s Fraunhofer: Diamond–ceramic composites, sepsis test-on-a-card, hot-embossed glass microlenses

By / December 22, 2010

Germany’s Fraunhofer Institutes have been churning out a fascinating collection of announcements this year that showcase the group’s ability to successfully span the research-demonstration-deployment worlds. Deservedly, a lot of countries…

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Micro-photovoltaic devices for use in chemotherapy

By / October 28, 2010

A press release from the American Institute of Physics claims that miniature photovoltaic devices are being developed for the delivery of chemotherapy drugs directly to tumors, rendering chemotherapy less toxic to…

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Former ACerS president Delbert Day to receive Phoenix Award

By / September 15, 2010

Del Day is receiving the 2010 Phoenix Award Glass for hisdevelopment of radioactive glass microspheres. Delbert Day, a past president of ACerS, will be given the 2010 Phoenix Award as…

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Scaffolds and host stem cells combined to improve tooth, joint replacements

By / September 7, 2010

Human molar scaffold Research centered at Columbia University is starting to improve techniques that combine ceramic scaffolds and stem cells to “grow” dental implants and limb joints. Led by Jeremy…

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Quantum dots and microneedles: A possible new approach to diagnosing skin disease

By / August 30, 2010

Microneedles fabricated with two-photon polymerization:Credit: Royal Society of Chemistry I first covered ACerS member Roger Narayan’s work in the field of two-photon polymerization a little more than a year ago…

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Nanoscale field-effect transistors developed to probe cells

By / August 12, 2010

In the journal Science, a new device is described that fashions nanowires into a transistor small enough to probe the interior of cells. A Harvard press release reports that the…

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Polymer, bioceramic and carbon nanotubes combined for new bone scaffold

By / August 12, 2010

A bone allograft being placed into position. The University of the Basque Country (Universidad del País Vasco) reports that one of its Ph.D. students has developed a new porous, biodegradable…

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