Bioscientists moving closer to 3D-printed artificial tissues (and more)

3D-printed Tissues May Keep Athletes in Action

Bioscientists are moving closer to 3D-printed artificial tissues to help heal bone and cartilage typically damaged in sports-related injuries to knees, ankles, and elbows. Scientists reported their first success at engineering scaffolds that replicate the physical characteristics of osteochondral tissue – basically, hard bone beneath a compressible layer of cartilage that appears as the smooth surface on the ends of long bones.

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Midwestern Floods Part of Global Problem

As the Midwest reels from catastrophic floods caused by the surging Missouri River, Gerald Galloway, a leading flood management expert at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering says the trend points to more such scenarios in the future. Formerly once-in-a-lifetime flooding levels are becoming a far more frequent occurrence, primarily as a result of climate change.

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Wood-based Technology Creates Electricity from Heat

Researchers have created a heat-to-electricity device that runs on ions that could someday harness the body’s heat to provide energy. Liangbing Hu and Robert Briber of the department of materials science, and Siddhartha Das of mechanical engineering, transformed a piece of wood into a flexible membrane that generates energy from the same type of electric current (ions) that the human body runs on.

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New Microscopy Technique Could Change LASIK

Researchers have developed a microscopy technique that could one day be used to improve LASIK and eliminate the “surgery” aspect of the procedure. They have developed a microscopy technique that could allow doctors to perform LASIK using precise measurements of how the eye focuses light, instead of approximations, and their findings were published in Physical Review Letters .

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Featured Program

The Clark Doctoral Fellows Program was launched in 2017 to support high-performing engineering Ph.D. students at the A.James Clark School of Engineering as part of a $219.5 million investment by the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

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