by Steve Dragos | May 7, 2026 | Research Highlights
Researchers are getting better at estimating tissue mechanics without cutting, stretching, or directly compressing the tissue being studied. Optical coherence elastography is one example. It uses optical coherence tomography to track wave motion through tissue, then...
by Steve Dragos | Apr 30, 2026 | Research Highlights
Chronic diabetic wounds are slow, but the deeper issue is that they stall. The inflammatory phase persists, angiogenesis stays weak, and remodeling does not kick in the way it should. That is part of what makes this study out of Sun Yat-sen University in China...
by Steve Dragos | Apr 23, 2026 | Research Highlights
Designing a durable bioprosthetic valve leaflet is not really about determining one impressive tensile number and moving on. In practice, the design process is messier than that. A leaflet opens and closes millions of times, sits in a controlled environment, and...
by Steve Dragos | Apr 16, 2026 | Research Highlights
Antifreeze protein delivery sounds a little unusual at first, but the problem behind it is fairly practical. Antifreeze proteins have been studied for years because of the way they interact with ice crystal growth and ice recrystallization, which makes them...
by Steve Dragos | Apr 9, 2026 | Research Highlights
Tendon tissue engineering often looks straightforward on paper. Make an aligned scaffold, seed cells, add a differentiation cue, then wait for the construct to move in the right direction. In practice, it usually gets messier than that. Tendon cells and tendon-like...
by Steve Dragos | Apr 2, 2026 | Research Highlights
Osteosarcoma research (like much of the cancer field in general) has had a persistent problem for years. The standard 2D dish is too simple, animal models are slow and messy in their own ways, and somewhere in between there is still a real need for a tumour model that...
