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Building Lungs on Scaffolding
Breathing is so effortless that we often take it for granted. However, our lungs are actually very delicate tissues with limited regeneration capacity. Upon lung failure, the only way to replace the tissue is
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Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts: The Bright Future of Heart Health
Doctors rebuild heart vessels with tissue engineered vascular grafts (TEVG) provide novel treatment for congenital heart disorders. Dr. Christopher Breuer and Dr. Toshiharu Shinoka lead the TEVG revolution
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New Medical Imaging System Developed by Yale Engineer and Collaborators
A revolution has begun to take hold in hospitals around the country as both surgeons and diagnosticians move from a one-size-fits-all form of diagnosis and treatment to a more personalized form of medicine. Yale
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Cyro-Electron Microscopy and the BK Ion Channel
The BK channel, an ion channel that conducts potassium ions through cell membranes, has been implicated in the regulation of smooth muscles and neuron excitability.
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A Golden Ticket: The Massive Potential of Bulk Metallic Glass
In the search for a material with the durability of steel and the flexibility of plastic, Dr. Jan Schroers, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, may have found the “golden ticket” - a biomaterial called
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An Artificial Approach to a Very Real Problem: Creating a Pancreas to Treat Type I Diabetes
The insulin pump, developed at Yale in the 1970s, revolutionized the management of Type 1 Diabetes, but manual pump adjustment can be inexact. Now, researchers are designing an artificial pancreas that aims to imitate
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Undergraduate Profile: Jarrad Aguirre, DC ’09, Rhodes Scholar: “Dissecting Medical Anthropology at Oxford”
A Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology major, Jarrad Aguirre '09 was one of thirty-two American winners to be awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, which he will use to complete an MSc in Medical Anthropology at
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Synthetic Proteins: Designing Your Own Biomedical Toolkit
The lab of Dr. Alanna Schepartz, Milton Harris ’29 is changing how researchers study proteins by pioneering research into the design and synthesis of three classes of molecules: miniature proteins, ß-peptide foldamers, and proto-fluorescent
Read More »Artificial Cells Boost T Cell Production
In adoptive immunotherapy, a potential new cancer therapy, blood is drawn from the patient and T cells from that blood are proliferated, or expanded, outside the body. The expanded T cells are then re-injected
Read More »Pushing Particles with PEG
Professor Mark Saltzman has now developed a promising new method of treatment that could evade the problem of chemotherapy delivery in the brain
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