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The need to keep vaccines cold makes global shipping a challenge. Researchers say their hydrogel approach could change that.

Vaccine distribution faces big challenges, as the COVID crisis has shown. Now, a multidisciplinary research team has overcome some of the major issues that plague the distribution of biomedical materials.

The multidisciplinary Zurich research team Liver4Life has succeeded in doing something during a treatment attempt that had never been achieved in the history of medicine until now: it treated an originally damaged human liver in a machine for three days outside a body and then implanted the recovered organ into a cancer patient.

Typically, a liver can't be stored on ice for more than 12 hours. This means this new machine could enable a lot more transplants than currently possible.

Large-area display textile integrated with functional systems The new design weaves conductive and luminescent fibres together with cotton into a fabric display of illuminating units that are both durable and easy to assemble. 16th March 2021 An electronic textile that is six meres long with a width of 25cm has been developed by a team at Fudan University in China, opening up the potential for applications in communications, navigation and healthcare. The textile is flexible, breathable and durable, making it an ideal material for practical uses, according to Professor Huisheng Peng, of Fudan...