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Woven scaffolds could improve cartilage repair

...roperties as native cartilage. In the near future, surgeons will be able to impregnate custom-designed scaffol...r disease transmission. "The scaffold will give surgeons the opportunity to treat their patients immediately, while patients won't have to wait for months wi...

Cure for cancer one step closer

...eir normal treatment. "I encourage patients and surgeons to support the important work of the Tissue Bank because everybody can play a part in the cure. Every cell contains a clue that can make a difference to tomorrow's cancer patients," he said. Queensland is well placed as a source of cancer tissue d...

Thymus transplants gives hope to babies with fatal immune disease

... otherwise would have died." For the procedure, surgeons obtain thymus tissue that usually is discarded fro...he gland is large and covers the heart in infants, surgeons must remove all or part of it to gain access to the heart. The removed thymus tissue is grown in cul...

Maggots rid patients of MRSA

...'s smallest surgeons. In fact they are better than surgeons - they are much cheaper and work 24 hours a day," Professor Boulton jokingly said. "They have been used since the Napoleonic Wars and in the American Civil War they found that those who survived were the ones with maggots in their wounds: they kep...

3-D ultrasound scanner provides in-depth view of the brain

...ted by the National Institutes of Health. Brain surgeons now rely primarily on two-dimensional images produced by MRI or ultrasound, said Edward Light, a research and development engineer in the biomedical engineering department at Duke. "The problem is that without 3-D, you could miss something," he said....

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