Skin and bones repaired by bioprinting during surgery
Schematic of the skin and bone bioprinting process. After scanning, the bone and then skin layers are bioprinted creating a layered repair with bone, a barrier layer, and dermis and epidermis.
Image: Ozbolat laboratory, Penn State
Skin and bones repaired by bioprinting during surgery
A ndrea Elyse Messer
April 26, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Fixing traumatic injuries to the skin and bones of the face and skull is difficult because of the many layers of different types of tissues involved, but now, researchers have repaired such defects in a rat model using bioprinting during surgery, and their work may lead to faster and better methods of healing skin and bones.
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Catharine Paules had a decision to make in the final trimester of her pregnancy: Should she get the coronavirus vaccination?
She had been preparing for a pandemic since she was a 10-year-old growing up in York County. As the world began to awaken to COVID-19’s powerful force last year, she had already known the tsunami was coming.
She’s an infectious disease physician at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and studied at the National Institutes of Health with the one man whose name will be forever entwined with battling the disease, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
York County man pleads no contest to homicide by vehicle in deadly head-on collision
On Oct. 18, 2018, Robert Yarnell, 71, of Chanceford Township, fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into an SUV, killing Samantha Rodriguez. She was 28.
York Daily Record
A man pleaded no contest on Tuesday to charges that he fell asleep at the wheel while driving home from work and crashed head-on into an SUV, killing a woman in southern York County.
Robert Yarnell, 71, of Chanceford Township, did not admit guilt but acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him of homicide by vehicle and driving on roadways laned for traffic. President Judge Maria Musti Cook will determine the sentence for the crime on June 8.