Using 3D laser printing technology, a company in California has developed a machine, called a “bio-printer,” that can grow new arteries and possibly be used “to create organs.”
Organovo is the name of the company and their innovative technology was recently highlighted in the Telegraph (UK). The machine works by piecing together living tissue “that form a cylinder comparable to a blood vessel.”
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Google recently honored Dennis Gabor, legendary Nobel Prize physicist, on what would have been his 110th birthday.
To honor Gabor, a 3D holograph was placed on the main page of Google Doodle. Gabor won the 1971 Nobel “for developing a type of holograph technology that uses a lens free, 3D photography system.”
Read the full article from eCanadaNow for more information about Gabor, an electrical engineer who has over 100 registered patents.
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A story produced for the American Institute of Physics series Discoveries and Breakthroughs in Science highlights the work of an engineering professor to clean up polluted drinking water.
Dr. Michael Wong is a chemical and biomolecular engineering assistant professor at Rice University. He is using “nanoparticles made out of gold and palladium to get rid of (harmful) chemicals” found in drinking water.
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