Engineers scale-up production of biopolymer microthreads
Monday, April 30, 2012 - 16:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Development of new therapies for a range of medical conditionsfrom common sports injuries to heart attackswill be supported by a new production-scale microthread extruder designed and built by a team of graduate students and biomedical engineering faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
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