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Bio-nanotechnology: Implications for More Effective Tissue Engineering Materials
Online Presentations | 06 Mar 2003 | Contributor(s):: Thomas J. Webster
Nanotechnology can be defined as using materials and systems whose structures and components exhibit novel and significantly changed properties by gaining control of structures at the atomic, molecular, and supramolecular levels. Although many advanced properties for materials with constituent...
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Building Molecules for Function: New Materials & Inks Will Be Needed If Additive Manufacturing Will Change Medicine
Online Presentations | 19 Feb 2019 | Contributor(s):: Matthew L. Becker
This presentation will describe the use of several translationally relevant chemistries and post-printing functionalization strategies that are impacting the practice of medicine and how physicians are planning for future therapies that were not possible previously.
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CELL-MET Thrust Area 2: Nanomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Materials, Scaffolds and Cardiac Tissues
Online Presentations | 04 Apr 2019 | Contributor(s):: Pranjal Nautiyal
In this presentation, FIU graduate student Pranjal Nautiyal explains his work on Nanomechanics in Arvind Agarwal's Lab.
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Ethics of Stem Cells and Therapeutic Cloning
Online Presentations | 27 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s):: James Leary
Invited lecture for Purdue University course SOC 573
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Franz Pruefer
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Functionalized Nanomaterials at the Interface of Biology and Technology
Online Presentations | 24 Apr 2008 | Contributor(s):: Dean Ho, National Center for Learning & Teaching in Nanoscale Science & Engineering
Nanomaterials, such as block copolymeric membranes and nanodiamonds, can be engineered for a broad range of applications in energy and medicine. This presentation will highlight the relevance of these materials as foundations for device fabrication across the spectrum of biology and technology....
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Jocelyn Teresia Dunn
My desire to have a positive impact on society encouraged me to obtain a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering at Purdue. While working on my thesis focused on Tissue Engineering and...
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Mehrdad Faraji
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Nano-enabled Biological Tissues
Presentation Materials | 11 Oct 2010 | Contributor(s):: Bradly Alicea
Tissue engineering is a new and vast frontier. Nanotechnology, along with other disciplines, can contribute to the development of novel innovations not previously possible. This slideshow is one person's opinion on how this field should move forward. The introduction given a short overview on...
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Nanomaterials for Bone & Neural Tissue Engineering
Online Presentations | 11 Sep 2008 | Contributor(s):: S. Swaminathan
Tissue engineering is defined as “the application of biological, chemical and engineering principles towards the repair, restoration or regeneration of tissues using scaffolds, cells, factors alone or in combination.” The goal lis to design and develop biodegradable, biocompatible polymer-ceramic...
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Nanomedicine for Treating Organ Failure
Online Presentations | 02 Jan 2008 | Contributor(s):: Thomas J. Webster
Nanotechnology has begun to revolutionize numerous science and engineering fields. The use of nanotechnology in medicine has been termed nanomedicine. This presentation will highlight recent advancements in the treating of organ failures (such as orthopedic, vascular, cartilage, central and...
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Re-engineering a Healthy Eye Tissue to Restore Damaged Eyesight
Online Presentations | 02 Aug 2007 | Contributor(s):: Margarita Shalaev
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an eye disease that is the leading cause of blindness in the USA and Western Europe. It affects over one million people in the United States alone. One of the symptoms of AMD is a diseased Bruch’s membrane, which is an important layer in the eye. Our...
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Soft Materials for Studying Hard Biological Problems
Online Presentations | 10 Oct 2019 | Contributor(s):: Kristi S. Anseth
This talk will illustrate how we leverage these and other reversible chemistries to create biologically responsive hydrogel matrices, and employ them to study the effects of matricellular signaling on diverse cellular functions and processes. For example, we exploit...
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Three-Type Multicellular Simulation Lab
Tools | 08 Nov 2020 | Contributor(s):: Paul Macklin, Randy Heiland
An analog of the 3-body problem: modeling 3 interacting cell types in a dynamic environment
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[Illinois] Biomaterials to Replicate the Form and Function of Inhomogeneous Structures in the Body
Online Presentations | 25 Apr 2014 | Contributor(s):: Brendan Harley
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a complex organization of structural proteins such as collagens and proteoglycans. Understanding that the ECM is dynamic and often spatially patterned or heterogeneous over the length-scale of traditional biomaterials, we are developing instructive biomaterials...
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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology Seminar Series Spring 2012: Direct Write Assembly of 3D Microperiodic Hydrogel Scaffolds For Stem Cell Culture and Tissue Engineering
Online Presentations | 10 Apr 2012 | Contributor(s):: Lucas Osterbur
Stem cells have demonstrated remarkable potential for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine through their ability for self-renewal and controlled differentiation. However, the development of optimal three dimensional (3D) scaffolds that overcome the limitations of 2D cell culture remains...
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[Illinois] Challenges unique to nanoindentation of biological tissues
Online Presentations | 18 Sep 2015 | Contributor(s):: Virginia Ferguson
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[Illinois] MechSE Bio Interest Group Seminar Series: Spatially-Patterned Collagen Scaffolds for Orthopedic Tissue Engineering and Regulating Stem Cell Fate
Online Presentations | 26 Nov 2012 | Contributor(s):: Steven Caliari
"Regeneration of multi-tissue structures like the tendon-bone junction (TBJ) requires dynamic new biomaterial technologies. The TBJ contains gradations of protein and mineral content that serve to minimize stresses at the interface between the stiff bone and softer tendon to prevent failure....
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[Illinois] The Spectacular Nano-Structured Attachment of Tendon to Bone and Our Appalling Attempts to Reconstitute It
Online Presentations | 27 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s):: Guy Genin
Joining mechanically dissimilar materials is a challenge throughout engineering, with spectacular and often devastating failures. This challenge also underlies one of the worst procedures in all of medical practice, the surgical reattachment of tendon to bone. The body presents a highly effective...
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[Illinois] weSTEM 2013: Managing your Goals in the Face of Uncertainty
Online Presentations | 11 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s):: Nina Tandon
In a recent interview for the Lavin Daily, “You Don’t Have To Be One Thing: Nina Tandon On Pursuing Many Interests,” Nina describes the value in pursuing a variety of interests even when working towards an advanced degree in a specified, technical area. “Don’t worry about being that one thing,”...