Brian Le, a faculty member in the Department of Urology at the UW–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, is working with collaborators on a heat-activated penile implant that improves upon existing options for men with erectile dysfunction. It’s made of a “memory metal” called Nitinol that expands when heated and contracts once cooled back to body temperature. Here, Le’s collaborator at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine describes how the implant works.
Video credit to Jason Johnson, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. …...more
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