{"685068":{"#nid":"685068","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Adipose Under Pressure: IMS Facilities Highlight","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFat grafting is a potentially life-saving surgical technique, often used to fill and repair severe injuries. Also used in cosmetic treatments, the procedure works to move fat from one part of the body to another. Yet not all parts of fat tissue are helpful and can be damaged or even harmful when transplanted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo improve fat grafting, a team of students from in the Master of Biomedical Innovation and Development (MBID) program in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E used tools in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/matter-systems.gatech.edu\/core-facilities\u0022\u003EIMS\u2019s Materials Properties Characterization Facility (MPCF)\u003C\/a\u003E to isolate and remove harmful fat tissue.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team designed and machined a hydrostatic press in the MPCF for their research. This kind of press applies equal pressure from all directions, which is different from a hydraulic press that only pushes in one direction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo build their hydrostatic press, they:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDrilled a hole into a block of aluminum\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFilled that hole with liquid\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThen pushed down on the liquid with a piston\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis setup allowed them to apply over 36,000 pounds of force for 10 minutes using a special machine called a servohydraulic test frame.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir results showed that applying this pressure to their samples would destroy the parts of the fat cells that weren\u2019t needed, while keeping the important structural parts and healing factors. This made the fat tissue more consistent and could make it safer to use in surgeries.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUsing tools in the MPCF, biomedical students developed a method to refine fat grafts by applying intense pressure to isolate beneficial tissue.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Using tools in the MPCF, biomedical students developed a method to refine fat grafts by applying intense pressure to isolate beneficial tissue."}],"uid":"35272","created_gmt":"2025-09-18 14:58:55","changed_gmt":"2025-09-18 19:33:28","author":"aneumeister3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678069":{"id":"678069","type":"image","title":"8A319154-8B9A-4B8D-B8EB-1F637E22BB5F_1_102_o.jpeg","body":null,"created":"1758207546","gmt_created":"2025-09-18 14:59:06","changed":"1758207546","gmt_changed":"2025-09-18 14:59:06","alt":"Biomedical Engineering graduate students work on their custom hydraulic press","file":{"fid":"262049","name":"8A319154-8B9A-4B8D-B8EB-1F637E22BB5F_1_102_o.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/09\/18\/8A319154-8B9A-4B8D-B8EB-1F637E22BB5F_1_102_o.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/09\/18\/8A319154-8B9A-4B8D-B8EB-1F637E22BB5F_1_102_o.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":135755,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/09\/18\/8A319154-8B9A-4B8D-B8EB-1F637E22BB5F_1_102_o.jpeg?itok=tHsabMYw"}},"678070":{"id":"678070","type":"image","title":"IMG_7395.jpeg","body":null,"created":"1758207546","gmt_created":"2025-09-18 14:59:06","changed":"1758207546","gmt_changed":"2025-09-18 14:59:06","alt":"Hydraulic press in the MPCF","file":{"fid":"262050","name":"IMG_7395.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/09\/18\/IMG_7395.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/09\/18\/IMG_7395.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":188775,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/09\/18\/IMG_7395.jpeg?itok=59rDAVWi"}}},"media_ids":["678069","678070"],"groups":[{"id":"660369","name":"Matter and Systems"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193652","name":"Matter and Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.neumeister@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Neumeister\u003C\/a\u003E | Research Communications Program Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Matter and Systems\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["amelia.neumeister@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}