{"id":240892,"date":"2023-05-04T19:38:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=240892"},"modified":"2023-05-04T19:38:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:08:19","slug":"smart-gel-based-sheet-can-form-3d-printed-conduit-helping-non-invasive-nerve-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/smart-gel-based-sheet-can-form-3d-printed-conduit-helping-non-invasive-nerve-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart gel-based sheet can form 3D Printed Conduit helping non-invasive nerve repair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><b>Smart gel-based sheet can form 3D Printed Conduit helping non-invasive nerve repair<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on <b>3rd May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have developed a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new smart gel-based sheet using three-dimensional (3D) printing technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This gel-based sheet can self-roll into a tube during surgery to form a nerve conduit which could help reduce the complexity of surgeries and aid rapid healing of nerve injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the current treatment for nerve injuries and what has been developed?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, the treatment of peripheral nerve injuries is still autografts. Bioresorbable polymer-based conduits are also being explored for clinical use as alternatives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But these treatment strategies suffer from several limitations such as donor site morbidity in the case of autografts and the necessity for sutures that demand highly skilled microsurgeries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These clinical shortcomings motivated researchers to design a smart gel-based sheet using three-dimensional (3D) printing technology that can self-roll into a tube during surgery to form a nerve conduit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This could help reduce the complexity of surgeries and aid the rapid healing of nerve injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is 3D Printing?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/3d-printing\/#:~:text=Three%2Ddimensional%20printing%20(3%2D,data%2C%20usually%20layer%20upon%20layer.\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is 4D Printing?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4D printing<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> relates to an advanced version of 3D printing where the fourth dimension is time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fourth dimension refers to the concept of self-assembly wherein the 3D printed object can reshape or self-assemble itself on the application of external passive energy like heat, gravity, magnetics, or simply hot water.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSmart gel-based sheet can form 3D Printed Conduit helping non-invasive nerve repair\u201d published in PIB on 3rd May 2023 What is the News? Scientists have developed a new smart gel-based sheet using three-dimensional (3D) printing technology. This gel-based sheet can self-roll into a tube during surgery to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/smart-gel-based-sheet-can-form-3d-printed-conduit-helping-non-invasive-nerve-repair\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smart gel-based sheet can form 3D Printed Conduit helping non-invasive nerve repair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-240892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703082759},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}