3D-printed bone replacements coming soon December 6, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Technology, Video.add a comment
It would be fantastic to use 3D printers to produce bone replacements:
Now, Washington State University engineers are unveiling a unique implementation of the tech that could aid in the regrowth of damaged or diseased bones. Utilizing a ceramic compound, the group’s optimized ProMetal 3D printer builds dissolvable scaffolds coated with a plastic binding agent that serve as a blueprint for tissue growth. The team’s already logged four long years fine tuning the process, having already achieved positive results testing on rats and rabbits, but it appears there’s still a ways to go — about 10 -12 years, according to the project’s co-author Susmita Bose — before orthopedic and dental surgeons can begin offering “printed” bone replacements.
Scienceroll.com: Weekly Introduction December 5, 2011
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Visualizing Disease Data December 2, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Visualization.1 comment so far
It’s quite clear not everyone would like to read long medical reports and text as sometimes a well-designed and structured graph can say more than a hundred words. Do you remember the Wired article about the blood test makeover that described how our blood test results would be designed to show more easily understandable information to patients?
Well, this Venn diagram shows many things about Hemorrhoids and related symptoms. And it’s not even a new infographics published on a blog but is from an old textbook which means the concept has been there for a long time but it always disappears in medicine.
Speaking at KOL and Stakeholder Engagement Europe December 2, 2011
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Looking forward to speaking at eyeforpharma’s KOL and Stakeholder Engagement Europe conference, 21-22 February in Berlin.
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