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Regenerative Collagen Scaffold Offers Better Options for Reconstruction of Soft Tissue in Surgery
March 4, 2021
Breast conserving surgery, otherwise known as lumpectomy, is performed on nearly 1.3 million breast cancer patients globally, each year. Complete removal of cancerous tissue and preservation of the breast’s shape, appearance, and consistency are central to the patient’s quality of life, post-surgery.
It is extremely challenging for surgeons to predict the cosmetic outcome of such surgeries given variations in tumor size, shape and location, the unpredictable nature of the tissue repair process, and effects of additional therapy. Currently there are no commercial products that allow surgeons to predictably restore, reconstruct, or regenerate soft tissues, such as the breast.
âWeâve built so many features into our technology to minimise technical violations,â says Robert Magaletta, chief executive of Shadowtrack. âWe would love to get people off the programme as a successful participant and move on.â
In Virginia, Shadowtrack is not replacing ankle bracelets, it is just a new kind of monitoring. And at the federal level, where US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses the SmartLink app created by BI Inc, the little data available suggests both methods are growing. In the 2020 tax year, ICE monitored 28,581 people through bracelets and 23,804 through SmartLink, according to detention data published by the agency. So far in 2021, there are 29,459 people using bracelets and 26,597 using SmartLink. âIt is not a substitute for detention, but allows ICE to exercise increased supervision over a portion of those who are not detainedâ based on factors such as their immigration history, community ties and medical condition
A file photo of pigs in a field in Scotland. American researchers have taught pigs how to play videogames. Reuters
Pigs are able to play video games. Birds have innate GPS systems. Octopuses feel empathy. Are humans really so much more intelligent than animals?
Hamlet, Omelette, Ebony, and Ivory are four gamers in a category all their own. Researchers at Purdue University in Indiana, US taught the four pigs to manipulate a joystick with their snouts and demonstrated that they are able to associate the movement of their eyes with the cursor on the screen. The results of the study have just been published in
In a normal farming year, grain that is harvested can be air-dried during storage and, when needed, an auger stirs the dry grains so they flow steadily from the bottom