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Twenty NSF-funded projects will showcase technology in the BIO Innovation Zone.
A device from Prescient Surgical that combines self-retaining retraction, barrier-wound protection and continuous wound-edge irrigation could aid in the prevention of wound-edge contamination during abdominal surgical procedures. More than 20 NSF-funded projects will exhibit in a space dedicated to early stage companies with emerging biomedical technologies.
Credit: Jonathan Coe, Prescient Surgical, Inc.
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