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Blood clots are a silent threat behind many serious illnesses—from sepsis and cancer to viral infections and autoimmune disease. Now, inventors at the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) have identified a promising new way to stop dangerous clots before they spiral out of control, without increasing
Current cold storage solutions or methods for cells, tissues, and organs are suboptimal due to irreversible damage to cold-sensitive tissue or organ transplants that need long term storage for facilitating clinical practices. NIH inventors have developed an invention to preserve the viability of
Have you recently graduated with a degree in science, law, or business and are curious about how research makes its way beyond the lab? The NIAID Technology Transfer Fellowship Program (TTFP) is now open. It’s an immersive training program focused on technology transfer in a federal setting
Conventional cryopreservation of three-dimensional tissue constructs can have several problems: They can suffer damage from tensional stresses experienced during expansion and contractions that occur during freezing and thawing. Uneven physical changes within the tissue during cooling or warming can