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New Product Could Revolutionize Musculoskeletal Tissue Repair
Treating patients with their own blood, modified to increase the concentration of heal-inducing platelets, has been touted as the “cure-all” for bone, muscle, and tissue repair for athletes, weekend warriors or those with traumatic injuries.
But the outcomes of this therapy, called platelet-rich plasma, or PRP, have been unpredictable. So researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) have devised what they believe is a better way to deliver the therapy—as a putty—and the initial results have been encouraging.
TechBridgeWorld Celebrates 10th Anniversary
2014 marks TechBridgeWorld’s 10-year anniversary of developing Technologies with a Global Heart.
TechBridgeWorld at Carnegie Mellon University is spearheading the innovation and implementation of technological solutions relevant and accessible to developing communities; using technology to build bridges rather than exacerbate divides.
CMU’s CHIMP Will Compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today announced that a team from Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) is one of six Track A teams chosen to compete this December in trials for the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
DARPA announced the trials will be Dec. 20-21 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida and will be open to the public.
The NREC team is now assembling its four-limbed robot, called the CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, or CHIMP. The human-size robot is designed to perform tasks, such as climbing ladders, driving vehicles and closing valves that must be accomplished during the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC).