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Bioreactors Drive Advances in Tissue Engineering
Bioreactors Drive Advances in Tissue Engineering

By Bo Schwerin   It was an unlikely moment for inspiration. Engineers David Wolf and Ray Schwarz stopped by their lab around midday. Wolf, of Johnson Space Center, and Schwarz, with NASA contractor Krug Life Sciences (now Wyle Laboratories Inc.), were part of a team tasked with developing a unique technology with the potential to […]

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HMA’s fire-suppression technology is ideal for a host of firefighting applications, including combating wildfires in areas unreachable by standard fire trucks. Here, HMA’s L3 (light, lean, and lethal) vehicle demonstrates these capabilities.
Space-Propulsion Technology Helps Suppress Fires Faster

By Bo Schwerin   Much deserved attention is given to the feats of innovation that allow humans to live in space and robotic explorers to beam never-before-seen images back to Earth.

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Ceramic fuel cells coated with special inks are at the core of the Bloom Energy Server.
Delivering Clean, Affordable Power

By Bo Schwerin   Imagine you are about to be dropped in the middle of a remote, inhospitable region—say the Kalahari Desert.

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Remote ultrasound procedures help provide for medical diagnoses on the International Space Station.
Featured Invention: NASA Helps Extend Medicine’s Reach

  By Bo Schwerin   Medical technology developed for the space station improves remote diagnostics on Earth.

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Featured Invention: NASA Modeling Innovations Advance Wind-Energy Industry

By Bo Schwerin One morning in 1990, a group of Glenn Research Center employees arrived to find their workspace upended by an apparent hurricane.

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