PhilaU’s new Biomedical Textile Structures Laboratory, which will develop textiles for medical uses in the human body, was featured in the Philadelphia Business Journal Oct. 30.  Researchers will be working to develop a cardiac patch that would be used with stem cells to regenerate heart tissue, in addition to other medical applications.  David Brookstein, dean of the School of Engineering and Textiles, was quoted in the story.

The new laboratory also was featured in The Roxborough Review Oct. 21.