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Abstract: Advances in drug delivery and tissue engineering are
revolutionizing medical therapies. New drug delivery technologies
including novel polymers and intelligent microchips promise to create
new treatments for cancer, heart disease, and many other illnesses. By
combining mammalian cells with synthetic polymers, new approaches for
engineering tissues are being developed that may someday help repair
tissues for patients with burns, damaged cartilage, paralysis, and
vascular disease.
On
February 19, Robert Langer
received the $500,000
Charles Stark Draper Prize for inventing medical drug delivery technologies that prolong lives and ease
suffering. The
Draper Prize is often referred to as "engineering’s Nobel
Prize."
April
3, Langer team reports source of cells
for engineered human blood vessels |
