Follow along as Jessica builds a wearable exoskeleton hand from straws, string and paper! The hand will be a model of the bones and tendons in your phalanges and will move as you pull on the strings!
Can you think of a few similarities between a hospital and a factory? Based on a hospital-factory analogy, this presentation provides a novel way to innovate in the medical device field with manufacturing science and technology. Examples of medical device innovation to tackle the world #1 cause of death will be introduced.
Participants will be creating a recreation of a vascular stent using aluminum foil. They will use a balloon on the end of a straw to simulate the balloon angioplasty and catheter procedure used to help fix clogged arteries. The cardboard tube will act as their tissue model that they can test different stent designs with.
The Whittington Research Group is making models of human disease outside of the body. You can view an overview of the work, and see students in the lab. Work is described using a LEGO analogy, because we know a lot people are familiar with building models with Legos or blocks.
Are you interested in helping the health and lives of others? Have you ever wondered how prosthetics, pacemakers, or hip replacements were designed? Learn from Professor Billiar about the field of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and some of the research that is being done at WPI to further advance our understanding biology and medicine.
Gelatin has many applications in medicine. It’s used to make coatings and capsules for allergy, cold, and pain relief drugs. Some of the techniques engineers use to encapsulate medicine, can be done at home! This activity uses chemistry concepts to make squishy beads out of the natural polymer gelatin.
WPI research team shows spinach leaves stripped of plant cells can become a vascular network to deliver blood, oxygen and nutrients to grow human tissues like cardiac muscle to treat heart attack patients. This green solution may solve the major problem now limiting the regeneration of large section of human tissues, bone, even whole organs to treat disease or traumatic injuries.
This video will demonstrate some basic science behind how concussion occurs in the brain. A concussion is the damage to the brain caused by external head impact. In particular, the rotational part of the impact is the primary reason to cause the brain to change shape. This will lead to the so-called “brain deformation” that stretches brain tissue, in particular, the white matter region. This part of the brain connects different gray matter regions of the brain, and will, therefore, disrupt the information flow within the brain. When brain deformation is too great, injury will occur, which leads to concussive symptoms.
This exhibit will show you the different stages of the silkworm life cycle and some of the materials and research areas being investigated by the Coburn lab. Silk is achieving new applications in biomedical engineering. Silk fibroin, a protein produced by silk, is used in drug delivery, disease modeling and can be fabricated into films, fibers, particles, hydrogels and scaffolds.
COVID-19 has already taken on a pandemic of epic proportions. In April 2020, a team of researchers from the United States, Nigeria, and Japan was formed to develop a teleoperated ultrasound scanning robot to make Lung Ultrasound (LUS) accessible in a resource-limited environment for COVID-19 diagnosis with a minimized risk of transmission between patients and healthcare workers. The developed robotic LUS platform comprises a passive-scan end-effector which connects the ultrasound probe adaptively to the chest, and the gantry-style positioning unit, which enables a whole scan of the LUS area.
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