Discipline: Surgery

Technologies 2

• Regenerating heart valves
  The human heart beats approximately 35 million times every year, pumping blood into the circulation via four different heart valves. In more than four million people each year, heart valves fail for different reasons, including birth defects, age-related deteriorations and infections. At present, clinicians use either artificial prostheses or fixed animal and cadaver-sourced tissue to...
• Pop-Up MEMS
  Recent decades have seen rapid development in the manufacture of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) at the micrometer scale, mostly based on silicon wafer processing techniques, with characteristic length scales of millimeters to nanometers. However, standard MEMS techniques are often inappropriate for producing machines with complex 3D topologies and varied constituent materials at the mesoscale, at sizes...

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• Press Release Engineering heart valves for the many
  May 18, 2017
• Press Release Soft robot helps the heart beat
  January 18, 2017
• Press Release Patching a gap in wound care
  November 29, 2016