Stiff, achy knees? Lab-made cartilage gel outperforms the real thing. Duke Today, Aug. 11, 2022. Hydrogel-based implant could replace worn-out cartilage and alleviate knee pain without replacing the entire joint. Clinical trials expected to launch in April 2023. Picked up by Futurity and WRAL TechWire.
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From the lab, the first cartilage-mimicking gel that’s strong enough for knees
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From the lab, the first cartilage-mimicking gel that’s strong enough for knees. Duke Today, June 26, 2020. Cartilage provides a combination of cushiony-yet-strong that hydrogels haven’t been able to match, until now. Picked up by Futurity and New Atlas.
Of heartbeats, bones and brushstrokes
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Of heartbeats, bones and brushstrokes. Duke Today, Aug. 1, 2016. It takes a well-trained eye to spot an irregular heartbeat in the peaks and valleys of an electrocardiogram. The same goes for identifying an extinct ape from a single fossilized tooth, or telling an original van Gogh from a fake. But in recent years, applied mathematician Ingrid Daubechies has been training computers to churn through ECG tracings, high-resolution scans of fossils, paintings and other complex digital data and work things out automatically.