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Hitting the Books: How ‘universal’ stem cells might fix our brains

Post author By Randall
Post date April 18, 2020
Categories In alzheimers disease, brain damage, feature, jack price, medicine, mit press, parkinson's, Science, stem cell, stem cell therapy, stroke, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] MIT Press Excerpted from The Future of Brain Repair – A Realist’s Guide to Stem Cell Therapy by Jack Price. Reprinted with permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2020. The work of Gurdon, Thomson, and Yamanaka revealed something quite remarkable: if a cell can be induced to express the appropriate factors, then its fate […]

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 […]