Sunday, 2 December 2012

Silk-based Implantable Optics Multi-task in the Body

Researchers at the Tufts University School of Engineering have demonstrated silk-based implantable optics that offer significant improvement in tissue imaging. While simultaneously it enables photo thermal therapy, administering drugs and monitoring drug delivery. The devices also lend themselves to a variety of other biomedical functions. Biodegradable and biocompatible, these tiny mirror-like devices dissolve harmlessly at predetermined rates and ...

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