Carol
Livermore
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Carol Livermore in the Press
Scientific American
3-D printing modification yields adorable micro-tools
Microfabrica also makes minuscule surgical instruments, including biopsy forceps less than one millimeter in diameter and a tissue scaffold with linkages that allow it to expand with cell growth. Carol Livermore, a mechanical and industrial engineering professor at Northeastern University, calls Microfabrica’s capabilities impressive. “I am not aware of any kind of high-end 3-D printing […]
Boston Magazine
Researchers are using origami to study human tissue engineering
For those who are suffering from disease or traumatic injuries, receiving an organ transplant can be the difference between life and death. But the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servicesreports that each year more than 7,600 lose their lives while waiting for the surgery. “It’s a big problem. The supply of organs is nowhere near as […]
In The Future, You May Get An Origami Liver Transplant
The ancient Japanese art of origami is useful for making more than just pretty papercranes and owls. In the future, the practice may be used to produce new human organs–an alternative to the 3-D printed organs that scientists are working on today. Carol Livermore, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University, has long studied microfabrication […]
Motherboard
Researchers Want to Make Origami-Inspired Organs
If the best new innovations are often twists on older ideas, it shouldn’t be surprising that one of the most inventive techniques being explored in the burgeoning field of tissue engineering is based on the ancient art of paper folding. Backed by a $2 million National Science Foundation grant, Carol Livermore, an associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering […]
