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Microplasma Generator
SummaryTufts University researcher, Jeff Hopwood, has developed a low-cost and high-efficiency source that allows plasma surface treatment at atmospheric pressure.SolutionsNon-thermal atmospheric plasmas have been demonstrated to be safe for human life and efficacious for anti-itch, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and anticancer treatment. Ionized particles...
Published: 1/15/2025
Inventor(s): Jeffrey Hopwood, Alan Hoskinson, Chen Wu, Sameer Sonkusale
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Category(s): Healthcare
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NANOCOMPLEXES FOR DELIVERY OF SAPORIN
Novel protein formulations for cancer therapy using an intracellular delivery formulation.Download a .pdf version of this technology hereIntellectual PropertyUS Publication 2016-0082126
Published: 6/5/2020
Inventor(s): Qiaobing Xu, Ming Wang
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Category(s): Diseases, Healthcare, Materials
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Chemical modification of proteins and peptides for therapy
A series of stimulus-responsive protein modifications to enhance intracellular protein drug delivery.Download a .pdf version of this invention hereIntellectual PropertyUS Publication 2016-0129120
Published: 4/16/2021
Inventor(s): Qiaobing Xu, Ming Wang
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Category(s): Healthcare, Materials, Nanotechnology, Therapeutic
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Novel Silk-Calcium Phosphate Processing Methods to Fabricate Porous Calcium Phosphate Ceramics for Bone Tissue Engineering
Silk-based injectable ceramic materials have been created. Due to their excellent biocompatibility and mechanical properties, they show great promise as injectable ceramic materials for orthopedic applications.Download a detailed description of the technology hereIntellectual PropertyUS Patent No. 9,925,299 (March 27, 2018)
Published: 6/5/2020
Inventor(s): David Kaplan, Stephanie Mcnamara, Tim Jia-Ching Lo
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Category(s): Healthcare, Materials: ceramics
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Electrogelation of Silk and Devices for Silk Electrogelation and Delivery
Silk based hydrogels made through electrogelation (e-gels) are excellent biocompatible adhesives. Once formed, these e-gels can be reversible which makes them excellent candidates for on-demand reversible blood clotting devices.Download a detailed description of all of our silk bleeding control technologies hereIntellectual PropertyUS Patents 8,501,172...
Published: 3/28/2025
Inventor(s): David Kaplan, Gary Leisk, Tim Jia-Ching Lo
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Category(s): Healthcare, Materials, Instrumentation
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Silk Lamellae Tissue Structures as a Platform for Tissue Engineering
Silk-based transparent films demonstrate excellent biocompatibility and applicability for corneal tissue engineering. Download a detailed description of the invention hereIntellectual PropertyUS Patents 6,140,240; 9,102,916; 9,655,993 and Patents in Japan and several European countries
Published: 6/4/2020
Inventor(s): David Kaplan, Fiorenzo Omenetto, Jeffrey Marchant, Noorjahan Panjwani, Brian Lawrence
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Category(s): Healthcare, Materials, Medical devices
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Wireless Frequency Domain Near Infrared Spectroscope for Cerebral Studies
Researchers at Tufts University have developed a miniaturized frequency domain near infrared spectroscope (mini-FD-NIRS) allowing for non-invasive measurements of absolute concentrations of oxy/deoxy-hemoglobin and other chromophores in patients and animals. Proof of concept experiments demonstrate that the measurements of chromophore concentrations...
Published: 6/5/2020
Inventor(s): Valencia Joyner Koomson, Chirag Sthalekar
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Category(s): Healthcare, Imaging, Instrumentation, Diagnostic
