Humans Need Metal For Strong Bones, Sort of Like Wolverine from X-Men
In the United Kingdom, researchers used the Diamond Light Source facility and its X-ray light that is 10 billion times brighter than the Sun...
GeneNews Offers Breast Cancer Risk Knowledge for Women
In Canada, GeneNews Limited offers hope for understanding breast cancer risk, especially to the 50% of women who have dense breast tissue which is...
PetVivo Creates Subsidiary Newco to Purchase Gel-Del Technologies
In Minnesota, biomedical companies PetVivo Holdings Inc. and Gel-Del Technologies Inc. have merged in a reverse triangular merger, meaning PetVivo created a subsidiary to...
Landec and Subsidary Apio Reach Class Action Settlement
In California, biomaterials company Landec Corporation, and food subsidiary, Apio Inc., reached an agreement to settle claims. There were two attempts to unionize Apio’s...
Christopher McNulty New CFO of InVivo
In Massachusetts, InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp., a biomaterials and biomedicals company focused on spinal cord injuries, hired Christopher McNulty as CFO as of March...
Fish Skin Now an Option for Severe Burn Patients’ Skin Regeneration
In Georgia, burn care specialist company PolyMedics Innovations, is partnering with Kerecis, a regenerative skin manufacturing company based in Iceland. The partnership allows Kerecis...
Biomaterial Spray Painting Method to Save Hearts
In North Carolina, researchers from University of North Carolina and other colleges involved in the project created a device to spray paint biomaterial onto...
Researchers Find Way to Block Scar Tissue from Forming on Biomaterial Implants
In Massachusetts, researchers found a way to help prevent fibrosis, or scar tissue from developing around medical implant devices. While biomaterial devices have been...
Proteins Interactions Hold Key for Maximizing Oil Production in Plants for Biofuels and Biomaterials
In New York, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory see a link between plants’ sugar and oil production that can...
3DFortify, Pond, and H-Prec Win Startup Award for Innovative Composites
In Paris, three start-up composite companies, 3DFortify, Pond, and H-Prec, won the Startup Booster award at the JEC World 2017 conference. Boston-based 3DFortify uses...