LongTermGuy
08-13-2020, 09:26 PM
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BIOENGINEERS ARE USING LEVITATION ON DEAD CELLS TO PRESERVE THE LIVING
GENTLY REMOVING DEAD CELLS MEANS BETTER PHARMA RESEARCH AND 3D PRINTING.
In the delicate work of bioengineering, dead cells get everywhere — and become a major nuisance.
Now, Stanford scientists have figured out how to separate the dead cells from the living, using magnetic levitation,
gently pulling them away from the still-useful survivors without ripping everything apart, according to New
Scientist (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251277-magnetic-levitation-can-be-used-to-separate-the-living-from-the-dead/). Magnetic levitation itself isn’t new, but learning that it can suck up dead cells is, and the scientists are
eager to show how it can improve everything from cancer research to 3D-printed scaffolds.
Take cancer research, for example. In research shared online (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.27.223917v1) last month, the scientists suggest that an experimental drug could be dropped onto a clump of cells. As cancerous cells die, assuming they do, the scientists could levitate them away from the rest of the cells as a way to track and quantify their progress.
More!!
https://futurism.com/neoscope/bioengineers-levitating-dead-cells-preserve-living
BIOENGINEERS ARE USING LEVITATION ON DEAD CELLS TO PRESERVE THE LIVING
GENTLY REMOVING DEAD CELLS MEANS BETTER PHARMA RESEARCH AND 3D PRINTING.
In the delicate work of bioengineering, dead cells get everywhere — and become a major nuisance.
Now, Stanford scientists have figured out how to separate the dead cells from the living, using magnetic levitation,
gently pulling them away from the still-useful survivors without ripping everything apart, according to New
Scientist (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251277-magnetic-levitation-can-be-used-to-separate-the-living-from-the-dead/). Magnetic levitation itself isn’t new, but learning that it can suck up dead cells is, and the scientists are
eager to show how it can improve everything from cancer research to 3D-printed scaffolds.
Take cancer research, for example. In research shared online (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.27.223917v1) last month, the scientists suggest that an experimental drug could be dropped onto a clump of cells. As cancerous cells die, assuming they do, the scientists could levitate them away from the rest of the cells as a way to track and quantify their progress.
More!!
https://futurism.com/neoscope/bioengineers-levitating-dead-cells-preserve-living