Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is leading a team of researchers that has developed a system ...

Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, is leading a team of researchers that ...

Researchers have developed an artificial cilia that monitors mucus in human airways to better detect infection, airway ...

Xiaoguang Dong is leading a team of researchers that has developed a system of artificial cilia capable of monitoring mucus ...

Cilia are small hairs which beat to push the mucus back up the trachea so it can be swallowed and destroyed in the stomach. Clean air then enters the two bronchi, one bronchus going to each lung.

Mimicking the sensing ability of biological cilia, Dong and his team developed ... conjunction with an airway stent within an artificial trachea and sheep trachea. Sensing signals are transferred ...