CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- Fibrous materials -- known for their toughness, durability and pliability -- are used in everything from bulletproof vests to tires, filtration systems and cellular scaffolds for ...

Custom small-diameter vascular grafts spun from nanofibers in minutes sustained blood flow and tissue remodeling in rats for four weeks.

(Nanowerk News) Hailed as a "cross between a high-speed centrifuge and a cotton candy machine," bioengineers at Harvard have developed a new, practical technology for fabricating tiny nanofibers. The ...

Researchers have developed a method for cheaply producing heart valves in the span of minutes that are functional immediately after being implanted into sheep. The scientists call their method ...

The initial implementation of the method was performed in sheep, where the scientists likened their approach to "a cotton-candy machine with a hair dryer behind it." Although further long-term in vivo ...