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• Ropirio: Novel Treatments Targeting the Lymphatic System
  Ropirio is commercializing the world’s first drug that directly targets and reactivates lymph vessels, a portfolio of other lymph-targeting small molecules, and a preclinical platform for discovering more.
• MyoExo: Wearable Muscle-Centric Sensors for Improved Assessment of Neurological Disorders
  MyoExo is a diagnostic technology based on strain sensors that can accurately detect muscle rigidity in patients with Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders. Data obtained with the device continuously from patients could improve the monitoring of treatments, and therapeutic interventions.
• ReConstruct: Vascularized tissue for breast reconstruction and augmentation
  ReConstruct is a platform for growing, vascularizing, and implanting patient-derived tissues that enable safer breast reconstruction after cancer surgery.
• Vibrating Insoles for Better Balance
  Balance in humans relies on complex feedback from the senses that govern the body’s mechanical stability. Wyss Institute and Boston University researchers have discovered that random vibrations, too gentle to be felt, can improve the sensory feedback system and may restore stability through a mechanism known as “stochastic resonance”. By incorporating vibrating elements in insoles...

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  Ropirio launches from Wyss Institute to develop first-in-class lymphatic medicines
  September 11, 2024
• Research Spotlights
  
  Soft robotic, wearable device improves walking for individual with Parkinson’s disease
  January 5, 2024
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  Wyss Institute promotes Christopher Chen to a Core Faculty member and appoints Ellen Roche and Michael Springer as new members of its Associate Faculty
  July 31, 2023

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  ReConstruct – 3D Bioprinted Vascularized Fat Tissues for Breast Reconstruction
  Breast cancer affects 15% of all women. Current options for breast reconstruction are insufficient and have poor patient outcomes. A research team at the Wyss Institute is addressing this clinical need by fabricating vascularized adipose tissue flaps for therapeutic use. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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  MORPH: A new soft material microfabrication process
  What has the ability to move and show its colors, is made only of silicone rubber and manufactured at the millimeter scale? A soft robotic peacock spider. Researchers have combined three different manufacturing techniques to create a novel origami-inspired soft material microfabrication process that goes beyond what existing approaches can achieve at this small scale....

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  Soft Exosuit for Post-stroke Gait Re-training
  This video explains how exosuit technology, developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, applied to ankle movements helps patients post-stroke regain a more normal gait. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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• Apr 1, 2019,
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  Engineering 3D Culture Models of Physiology and Disease: How Simple is Complex Enough
  Wyss Institute Associate Faculty Member Christopher Chen will be the speaker at this Charles Delisi Distinguished Lecture Award Event, presented by the Boston University College of Engineering. Please RSVP to engadmsw@bu.edu by March 18. Reception will follow the lecture at 5pm. Free and open to public