A collaboration of researchers from the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hopes to begin a small clinical trial next year. During this trial, experts will test a new gel they developed, which can mimic key traits of human vocal cords. The innovation could benefit millions of p... |
14 July 2011
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This is the stuff that women’s dreams are made of: a gel that is applied onto the skin twice a day and leads to breast enlargement. No implants, no surgery, no scars: only a bottle of gel costing £125.The product boasts the ability to make the chest firmer and, as odd as it may sound, up to two and a half... |
1 October 2010
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Cornell University (CU) biological engineers may have just made one of the most incredible finds in the history of their field, when they have created a new method of obtaining proteins that are necessary for medicine and the industry without having to resort to living cells in the process. That is to say, they can g... |
2 April 2009
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Could this gel be the so-much-looked-after weapon enabling women to prevent a HIV infection? Trials made by a team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine seem to indicate so. Tenofovir was self-applied by patients and well tolerated by HIV negative women... |
27 February 2008
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Wrinkles can be history. At least in the case of burned victims that received skin grafts. A new gel could impede the painful and disfiguring contractions of skin grafts.Irreparably burned skin can be replaced by grafts taken from other areas of the patient's body or made by tissue engineering. In most cases, th... |
4 February 2008
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Squid pen, remaining of the once well developed shell like the one of a snail, is usually a waste product of the squids, which most food processors discard. But a wound-healing gel based on squid pen and developed by a team at the Otago University was brought into the attention of international pharmaceutical compan... |
30 November 2007
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This is the chameleon of the non-living materials: a newly structured gel created by a MIT team can quickly shift color reacting to an array of stimuli, from temperature to pressure, salt concentration and humidity."Among other applications, the structured gel could be used as a fast and inexpensive chemical sensor,"... |
22 October 2007
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See? Strawberry and banana flavored or spiky condoms are kids' stuff. A new condom goes to the point: not even longer, but larger erections, too!CSD500, the Condom Safety Device, will have an erectogenic chemical to help men keep a full erection during intercourse. The gel, to be licensed under the trademark nam... |
18 August 2007
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Well, vagina appeared to be a better candidate for producing "microbicides", drug-delivery systems such as gels, rings, sponges or creams to prevent infection with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. In 2006, University of Utah researchers have developed a vaginal "molecular condom" that starts as a liquid s... |
24 July 2007
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A new biomaterial, called hydrogel, can be injected into wounds where it starts repairing damaged tissue and regenerating it, opening the way for revolutionary treatments for injured soldiers. The gel also has surprising antibacterial properties which help speed up the healing process.Hydrogels are made up of a netw... |
19 July 2007
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What happens when you stick a knife into a solid material and drag it through? A cleavage splits the two sides of the material, leaving a visible trace of the knife. And when you do that to a fluid? Of course, the fluid behind the knife will get back to its original state and the two sides will reunite.However, natu... |
17 May 2007
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A team of Japanese chemists led by Kazuki Sada of Kyushu University have developed a new gel that can increase its volume 500 times when coming in contact with solvents.A gel is a colloidal system in which a porous network of interconnected nanoparticles spans the volume of a liquid medium. In general, gels are appa... |
30 April 2007
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