Patching up broken hearts Associate Professor Lauren Black and collaborators are developing a novel tissue graft which could give new hope to pediatric heart patients.
Programmable silk-based materials Biomedical engineers have created materials with embedded, pre-designed functions. The process enables the creation of mechanical components with functionality, such as surgical pins that change color with strain.
Mitochondria expose tumors’ misbehavior Tufts engineers help develop a new technique that could enhance standard criteria for early cancer diagnosis.
Tissue healing after a heart attack Tufts engineers have developed new, non-destructive techniques to evaluate tissue healing following a heart attack.
Generating human neural stem cells Process could pave way for engineering innervated tissues such as skin, cornea.
"Smart" thread collects data through sutures Tufts engineers have developed threads that, when sutured into tissue, collect and wirelessly transmit diagnostic data.