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- adjective Compatible with
biological tissue
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Long-term biocompatible implants and non-invasive targeted therapeutics to treat cancer are potentially achievable based on current R&D advances.
unknown title 2009
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I've just always felt they were going that way ... give the Doctor some pseudo-family and "The Doctor's Daugher" and the biocompatible 10.5 make it likely.
Doctor Who 2010 - casting spoiler...maybe rabid1st 2009
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Earlier this year, Dr. Anthony Atala of Wake Forest University "printed" a whole dummy kidney, made of biocompatible materials and cells, live on stage at the TED conference in Long Beach, Calif., using a 3-D printer that had been fed with information from a layer-by-layer 360-degree scan of a real kidney.
How Close Are We to 'Printing' New Organs? Matt Ridley 2011
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The lead in PZT would require the device to be robustly encased in silicone or another biocompatible polymer.
Medical Devices Powered by the Patient’s Own Heart | Impact Lab 2010
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Here, zinc oxide might have an advantage over PZT because it is biocompatible.
Medical Devices Powered by the Patient’s Own Heart | Impact Lab 2010
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The combination of flexible and porous new biocompatible materials with the ability to grow cells outside the body is new.
How Close Are We to 'Printing' New Organs? Matt Ridley 2011
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The researchers hope to make other biocompatible devices that could one day carry clot-busting agents to clogged vessels.
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The result is a thin layer of material that is transparent and biocompatible, as well as cheap and easy to make, says the team.
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An ideal solution would be to develop an artificial cornea, but is has proved very hard to design and manufacture a structure so that it is optically clear in the middle and biocompatible at the edges.
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"This proves the ability to create a synthetic biometric or fake fingerprint with biocompatible, chipless RFID ink and read it through hair," he said.
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