Category: blood vessels

MIT’s thread-like robot can slip through blood vessels in your brain

Post author By Randall
Post date August 29, 2019
Categories In aneurysm, blood clots, blood vessels, brain, brain surgery, brain vessel, engineers, fluoroscope, Gaming, gear, hydrogel, magnetic, medicine, mit, nickel, remote, robot, robotic, Robots, soft robot, stroke, surgeons, surgery, Tech, thread, tomorrow

[ad_1] The team described the “magnetically steerable, hydrogel-coated robotic thread” in a paper published in Science Robotics. The core of the thread is made from nickel-titanium alloy, which is both bendy and springy. It’s coated with a rubbery paste, or ink, which is embedded with magnetic particles. That’s then covered with a hydrogel, which makes […]

Lab-grown blood vessels could make dialysis easier

Post author By Randall
Post date March 27, 2019
Categories In bioengineered, blood vessels, clinical trial, dialysis, duke university, humacyte inc, medical device, medicine, science mag, Tech, tomorrow, yale university
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[ad_1] Dialysis replicates some of the kidney’s key functions, but it requires a machine that pulls blood out of a blood vessel, filters it and pumps it back into the body. Typically, an extra blood vessel — either synthetic or donated — is implanted into the patient’s arm, and that channels blood into the dialysis […]