Month: September 2022

ARTIFICIAL BONE for dental and orthopedic surgeries has been a challenging major unmet need in medicine. New bone implants must conform perfectly to anatomic geography, not be rejected by the body, and have some of the remarkable strength and flexibility properties of natural bone. Strategies to achieve this have included bone glues, collagens, and bone grafts to recruit stem cells and growth factors. New seeding technologies using nano ceramics are also under investigation. As yet there is no perfect solution. View in LinkedIn

SUPERPAPER with microfluidic channels for sample flow using desktop printer to make cheap disposable diagnistics: the marriage of solid phase microfluidics (old) with cellulose based diagnostics (old) to make something new and original. View in LinkedIn

DMD was once a model of find the gene, find the defective protein, and the cure will emerge. Not quite that simple! View in LinkedIn

CARTILAGE bioengineering to replace damaged cartilage is making strides. We can expect routine cartilage replacement within a decade. View in LinkedIn

ANTIBIOTIC POLLUTION. Alexander Fleming changed history by discovering penicillin, earning him the Nobel Prize in 1945. But our over-zealous use of antibiotics, including in high density meat and fish production, has encouraged nasty pathogenic antibiotic-resistant bacteria. These molecules are in our food, and in most water supplies. With a thin pipeline of new antibiotics in trials, public health officials are concerned. View in LinkedIn

US REFERENCE LABS are being challenged by the FDA for possible new regulation, and the American Clinical Lab Association has filed a Citizen's Petition disputing that the FDA has the authority to regulate them, because by definition they are not 'devices' over which the FDA does has legislative authority. The existing approval for reference labs is under the Clinical Labs Improvement Act or CLIA, and has resulted in a safe and orderly industry for many decades. How about a real problem target like the food industry. Did I mention tobacco? View in LinkedIn

SUPERBUGS: 'Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) plans to reintroduce the Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resistance (STAAR) Act, which would reauthorize the Antimicrobial Resistance Task Force' according to Biocentury Extra. This call to action is timely and important. View in LinkedIn

BARCELONA'S SUPERCOMPUTER is perhaps the most beautiful in the world. It is located in the luxurious former Girona family estate, in a chapel built for their daughter who aspired to be a nun, next to the large family house and pond. Next door is a palace the family donated to the royal family. Inside the exquisite chapel, Mare Nostrum (Our sea), as it is called, is a humming flickering modern god with spectacular red cables, living in a huge glass case, surrounded by stained glass windows and timeless arches. Of course the entry door is located at the former altar. Is the answer 42? View in LinkedIn

3D PRINTED FOOD will be the new rage in garnishes and decorations. This outlandish concept was not conceived in the early IP for modern printers. They were obsessed with microprinting devices, the issues of correct vent design in tiny spaces that would not clog or leak. All a far cry from this quantum jump to printing objects. http://lnkd.in/D--kAd View in LinkedIn

THE PILOT PEN from Tokyo is my favorite writing instrument, and popular worldwide. However, on more than one occasion, they have bled during air travel, to my immense distress, inking clothing and skin. I spent months reviewing the topic of reservoir vents, in the hope of finding a solution to this vexing problem. The world of vents turned out to be exquisitely fascinating. In the end by considering surface tension and geometry I devised a solution. Would anybody skilled in micro-fabrication be willing to collaborate on experiments to support a patent, and then seek a deal with Pilot? View in LinkedIn