New PICC Mimics Nature

...faces. r4 Vascular designed the catheter to have a biomimetic surface that mimics the natural glycocalyx layer o...faces. r4 Vascular designed the catheter to have a biomimetic surface that mimics the natural glycocalyx layer o...rance to launch their first catheter based on this biomimetic technology. It will be available beginning June 30...

Global Growth Factors (Blood and Tissue) Market to Reach $52.1 Billion by 2012, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts

...arkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Players dominating the global and regional Growth Factors (Blood and Tissue) market include Amgen Inc, biomimetic Therapeutics Inc, Biopharm GmbH, Bolder Biotechnology Inc, Alseres Pharmaceuticals Inc, Ceregene Inc, FibroGen Inc, FzioMed Inc, GeneMedix Plc, Insmed...

Sensitive, Smart and Strong - Too Bad it's Just a Robotic Arm

...der Smagt. How to build a brain From the start, the group knew that sensitivity, dexterity, and strength were not enough. They had to provide the biomimetic arm with a high degree of intelligence. Their ultimate goal is to create a microchip that will allow the arm to carry out tasks requiring human-le...

Novel hydrogel systems for dentin regeneration

...l over nanofiber architecture and better chemical functionality. The overarching goal of this research is to utilize these multidomain peptides as a biomimetic scaffold, along with dental stem cell therapy, to provide a natural 3D environment that can control and direct the differentiation and function of den...

Neurotransmitters in biopolymers stimulate nerve regeneration

...r acetylcholine to spur the growth of neurites, which are projections that form the connections among neurons and between neurons and other cells. The biomimetic polymers would then guide the growth of the regenerating nerve. There is currently no treatment for recovering human nerve function after injury to...

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An artificial cornea is in sight, thanks to biomimetic hydrogels

If eyes are "the windows of the soul," corneas are the panes in those windows. They shield the eye from dust and germs. They also act as the eye's outermost lens, contributing up to 75 percent of the eye's focusing power. On Sept. 11 in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Chemical S...

Turning sunlight into liquid fuels

...ing water insoluble and none are very robust. In looking for purely inorganic catalysts that would dissolve in water and would be far more robust than biomimetic materials, Frei and Jiao turned to cobalt oxide, a highly abundant material that is an an important industrial catalyst. When Frei and Jiao tested mic...

Very cold ice films in laboratory reveal mysteries of universe

...ower structure. Most intriguingly, ice under certain conditions produces biomimetic forms, meaning that they appear life like, with shapes like palm leaves or ...been found," said Cartwright. On the other hand the existence of lifelike biomimetic structures in ice suggests that nature may well have copied physics. It is ...

Trustee makes donation to start new solar energy research center at Rensselaer

...disciplinary Studies and a chemical engineer, also envisions strong possibilities for entirely new forms of light-capturing technologies. "Ultimately, biomimetic designs will be integrated with nature's biological machinery to provide scalable, efficient, and broadly applicable systems that convert light into u...

Ripple effect: Water snails offer new propulsion possibilities

...he water snails show us that this is possible, and therefore one can design biomimetic systems taking advantage of that movement," Lauga says. An example of a biomimetic system that could be designed based on Lauga's water snail research, he sai...

Europe rallies behind nanotechnology to wean world from fossil fuels

...e viruses this means that a greater surface area of charge carrying capacity can be packed into a given volume. However, commercial realisation of biomimetic and other emerging technologies lies far in the future. But meantime, as delegates heard from several speakers at the ESF conference, nanotechnology h...

Prof. David Kisailus studies engineering and invention on the half-shell

...cientists. Instead of commuting to the coast, the researchers have brought the oceans to UCR in a unique 500-gallon seawater system that dominates the biomimetic and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory, offering homes for both coldwater (60 degrees Fahrenheit) and tropical (80 degrees Fahrenheit) species. ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- April 16, 2008

...ructures has been an lively area of research, particularly in the design of biomimetic materials. But before the petal effect could be replicated in synthetic mat...xplanation of the phenomenon but also an inspiration for the preparation of biomimetic polymer films, which should be of great biological and technological import...

Researchers develop better membranes for water treatment, drug delivery

...esearchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new generation of biomimetic membranes for water treatment and drug delivery. The highly permeable and s...ivery applications. With their high permeability and high selectivity, the biomimetic membranes also are ideal for water treatment by desalination, which is beco...

Herr receives Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment

...s advancing an emerging field of science that applies the principles of muscle mechanics, neural control and human biomechanics to guide the design of biomimetic robots, human rehabilitation devices and other technologies. Most recently, Dr. Herr and his Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab ...

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Muscular protein bond -- strongest yet found in nature

...n living organisms. Better understanding could potentially inform physiological research and biomedical applications. Such insights might also inspire biomimetic research and design for nanotechnology. ...

First high-resolution images of bone, tooth and shell formation

...ng mechanisms have already been studied for a long time, the process is still not fully understood. A widely used strategy is the use of so-called biomimetic studies, in which the process of biomineralization is simulated by a simplified system in a laboratory. This allows parts of the mineralization proces...

Spotting the next GM-like controversy before it happens

...s. The list, published online this week in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, includes issues such as artificial life and biomimetic robots; nanotechnology; the impact of geo-engineering the planet to mitigate climate change; and the effect of rising demand for biofuels. The list is...

Researchers engineer new polymers to change their stiffness and strength when exposed to liquids

...lly to water and to exhibit minimal swelling, so they don't soak up water like a sponge," saud Shanmuganathan. In their new approach, the team used a biomimetic approach -- or mimicking biology -- copying nature's design found in the skin of sea cucumbers. "These creatures can reversibly and quickly change t...

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Marine biology

...ering. An interesting branch of marine biology is aquaculture . Marine environments are the home to many exotic biological materials that may inspire biomimetic materials . Related fields Marine biology is closely linked to both oceanography and biology . It also encompasses ideas from ecology . Fi...