Scientists at the University of Osaka have developed a novel hydrogel that enables the efficient, three-dimensional (3D) ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gelesis, a biotechnology company at the forefront of developing mechanobiology-based therapies to treat chronic diseases related to the gastrointestinal (GI) system, today ...

To create a new wound-care gel, researchers used a common hydrogel, Gel-MA, and created several combinations infused with platelet-rich blood plasma (PRP) and polylysine (PL). To test the gel’s ...

Cataracts—a condition that causes clouding of the eye's lens and deteriorating vision—will affect nearly everyone who lives long enough. Now Johns Hopkins scientists have pioneered a new ...

A team of MIT engineers has designed a flexible drug-delivery patch that could help the heart heal after a heart attack.

Our brains not only memorize things, they also forget them. While that may seem like a limitation, it's a quality that's been copied in a new hydrogel – and it may actually have some practical ...

After decades of being seen as rigid, metallic creations, robots are starting to soften up. Spongey materials like hydrogels could make for robots that are more flexible, safer to be around and ...

Magnetic soft robots deliver and release tens of millions of probiotic bacteria with timed control, disrupt tumor spheroids ...

A new study has described the development of edible composite hydrogel films that could be used as scaffolds in cultivated ...

A new transparent range of robots has been created called the Hydrogels, which take the form of gel based robots that can evade underwater detection and can easily catch and release live fish, as well ...