Custom, Innovative Tubing for Medical Devices
Advanced manufacturing processes — including custom laser machining, etching, tipping, reflowing, bonding, and composite constructions — deliver high-performance medical tubing from materials such as polyimide, PTFE, Nylon, Pebax®, and polyurethane, allowing for tighter extruded tolerances. Watch how MicroLumen engineers develop tubing that ensures precision and reliability in medical device applications.
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Immunotherapy: Drug Harnesses Immune System Against Cancer
Certain types of immune cells called regulatory T-cells, while vital for a balanced immune system, can hinder the cancer-killing process. Targeting these cells without affecting other immune cells in the past has been difficult. A new drug can stop regulatory T-cells from working while leaving other immune cells intact to fight the cancer cells.
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The Bridge Recombination Mechanism — Next Generation Genome Design
Researchers have discovered the bridge recombinase mechanism, a precise and powerful tool to recombine and rearrange DNA in a programmable way. Going far beyond programmable genetic scissors like CRISPR, the bridge recombinase mechanism enables scientists to specify not only the target DNA to be modified, but also the donor material to be recognized, so they can insert new, functional genetic material, cut out faulty DNA, or invert any two sequences of interest.
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Drug-Loaded 3D Printed Films
Drug-loaded 3D printed films could change cancer treatments forever as world first research from the University of South Australia shows the new films kill liver cancer cells by more than 80 percent, with less systematic toxicities of chemotherapy. The 3D printed films are placed at the exact surgical site where a cancer has been removed, localizing drugs to the affected area to treat possible residual cancer cells, and limit undesirable side effects of traditional chemotherapy.
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