(Nanowerk News) Biomedical polymers have been extensively developed for promising applications in a lot of biomedical fields, such as drug delivery, disease detection/diagnosis, biosensing, ...

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) and the Sheba Medical Center have developed a new therapy to treat atherosclerosis and prevent heart failure with a new biomedical polymer that reduces ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Confluent Medical Technologies (“Confluent Medical”) today completed the acquisition of ETE Medical and its operating subsidiaries Biomedical Structures (“BMS”) and ...

Nitric oxide (NO) releasing polymers have emerged as a versatile platform in biomedical engineering, offering significant potential for improving the biocompatibility and functionality of medical ...

Poly(2-oxazoline) (POx) polymers have emerged as a highly versatile class of materials in biomedical research owing to their excellent biocompatibility, tunable physicochemical properties and facile ...

Chicago – A compound used in cosmetics and food supplements may help make artificial heart device polymer parts less permeable to air and water, according to a team of Penn State researchers. "The ...

New nickel-PTFE nanocomposite mold integrates lubricating particles directly into the matrix, achieving over 1,500 defect-free molding cycles without coatings for microfluidic devices. (Nanowerk News) ...

In 2019, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remained the leading killer of people around the world and accounted for the deaths of almost 18 million individuals. Regardless of the type of CVD, it is ...

While other researchers have already developed composite materials with silk, they have typically just worked with its primary protein or short fibres. Guan, however, has focused on silk fabric woven ...

Biomedical engineers have demonstrated that a class of interwoven composite materials called semi-interpenetrating polymer networks (sIPNs) can be produced by living cells. The approach could make ...