Pint of Science Festival - Synthetic Body Parts Miscellaneous

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Injectable microspheres for failing hearts

Discover how scientists use stem cells to repair damaged hearts. They have grown human stem cell-derived heart cells on tiny biodegradable microspheres. Due to their small size, they can be directly injected into the heart muscle using a needle. The cells attach on the microspheres, making connections with other cells, and can beat for up to 40 days in a dish. This technology inspires the next generation of materials to effectively deliver new cells to failing hearts to restore their function. This type of cell therapy could one day cure debilitating heart failure.

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Using 3D printing technology to make prosthetic eyes

Globally 7 million people wear an ocular prosthetic after damage to the eye from trauma, if they are born with a malformed eye or if the eye has been removed for pain or for a tumour. The final fit and appearance has an impact not only on the eye socket, but also is of great psychological significance. Explore the kind of reasons requiring such radical surgery, how we currently rehabilitate the socket and our development, over the last 5 years, using technology of a 3D printed ocular prosthetic. This is now in clinical trials at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

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