A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences used piezoelectric polymer poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) fibers with ordered micro-nano structures and a piezo catalytically-induced controlled ...

The medical sector continues to experience an increasing interest in implantable devices that are either fully or partially absorbable. Industry leaders are accepting bioabsorbable technology as a ...

Nature Materials – To repair complexly shaped tissue defects, an injectable cell carrier is desirable to achieve an accurate fit and to minimize surgical intervention. However, the injectable carriers ...

Purac has successfully started up its new 75,000 tonnes/yr lactide plant in Thailand. Construction of the EUR 45 million state-of-the-art plant, located at the existing Purac site in Thailand, was ...

PARIS, France—A new stent coated with a crystalline form of sirolimus—a device designed to promote extended drug elution long after the bioresorbable polymer has vanished—fared just as well as a ...

Healing broken bones could get easier with a device that provides both a scaffold for the bone to grow on and electrical stimulation to urge it forward, UConn engineers reported on June 27 in the ...