Wouldn’t it be nice if… our implants weren’t toxic?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Unfortunately, some implanted medical devices can release toxic byproducts over time. They’re leached from the piezoelectric materials commonly used to make them. But fear not! Fanqi Dai, Haofeng Cheng, and
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Ahh the smell of fresh coffee wafting from…your medicine cabinet? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Have you noticed most medicine comes in little plastic capsules? These capsules protect your drugs, but they aren’t as safe as you might hope. That’s because plastic is usually
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Are cockroaches lending a helping hand? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. I know – technically cockroaches don’t have hands… But they do have legs, and they’re revolutionizing prosthetic limbs. How? Yeongin Kim and colleagues at Stanford University have created an artificial nerve. It senses
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