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US Manufacturing Technology Orders totaled $437.85 million in March 2021
This total was an increase of 16.1% from February 2021 and a 41.6% increase over March 2020.
U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders totaled $437.9 million, an increase of 16.1% over February 2021 and an increase of 41.6% over March 2020, according to the latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report published by
AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology. Total orders for 2021 reached $1.1 billion, almost one-third above the total orders in the first quarter of 2020.
“It is noteworthy that total orders in the first quarter were significantly higher than total orders in Q1 2020, given the strength of the first three months of 2020, when the pandemic had not yet affected the industry,” says Douglas K. Woods, president of AMT. “And while these are certainly impressive numbers, they should have been even higher when looking at Oxford Economics’ prediction that U.S. GDP could have been
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IMAGE: The dECM-MA derived from porcine skeletal muscles is combined with PVA fibrillation, which provides the topographical cues for proper cellular alignment when bioengineering rat muscles. view more
Credit: Sang Jin Lee
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2021 When trauma, illness, or injury causes significant muscle loss, reconstructive procedures for bioengineering functional skeletal muscles can fall short, resulting in permanent impairments.
Finding a synergy in the importance of biochemical signals and topographical cues, researchers from Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, and Chonnam National University developed an efficient technique for muscle regeneration and functional restoration in injured rats. They describe results from the technique in the journal
New 3D Bioprinting Technique Directs Cell Orientation at Individual Cell Level
Written by AZoMMay 6 2021
3D bioprinting has the ability to make engineered scaffolds that imitate natural tissue. Regulating the cellular organization inside those engineered scaffolds for regenerative applications is a complicated and tough process.
Biofabrication of multicompartmental hydrogel fibers for the formation of multiscale biomimetic constructs. Image Credit: Mohamadmahdi Samandari, Fatemeh Alipanah, Keivan Majidzadeh-A, Mario M. Alvarez, Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago, and Ali Tamayol.
Cell tissues have the tendency to be highly ordered with regards to spatial distribution and alignment, hence bioengineered cellular scaffolds for tissue engineering applications should closely match this orientation to be able to work similar to natural tissue.
4D printing strategy helps fabricate biomimetic microchannel scaffold for spinal fusion
Spinal fusion is frequently performed to restore spinal stability in patients with spinal diseases, such as spinal stenosis, vertebral fractures, progressive deformities, and instability. In the past two decades, there has been marked increase in the number of people over 65 years in age who have needed spinal fusion surgery.
While autogenous bone grafts have long been considered the reference standard for spinal fusion, painful pseudoarthrosis remains a leading cause of poor clinical outcomes. Many researchers have consequently focused on trying to create a biomimetic scaffold that induces vascularization to enable bone tissue regeneration and spinal fusion.
Understanding body clock gene networks could help turn early birds into night owls or vice versa
How body clocks work could lead to science that can turn an early bird into a night owl or vice versa as well as other advances, like helping crops grow all year long.
In Applied Physics Reviews, by AIP Publishing, scientists at Penn State report on their work advancing knowledge about circadian rhythms, the natural process that governs sleep and waking patterns in humans, animals, and plants.
Researchers have identified a set of genes, called clock genes, that control these rhythms. But a more complicated network of genes than previously known appears related to circadian rhythms. More fully understanding this network is key to understanding how the rhythms work and could potentially be changed.