Team behind BioPen named finalist in Australian Museum Eureka Prizes

The surgical tool, used to repair cartilage, was developed by researchers from across Australia. The Australian team that developed the BioPen, a handheld surgical device that can be utilized to sculpt personalized stem cell-based implants during surgery, have been named as finalists in the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes. The development of the BioPen, led by Gordon Wallace, University of Wollongong, involved researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES; University of Wollongong), St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and the University of Melbourne Department of Surgery (all Australia). "A lot of those knee injuries occur in younger people. So to be able...