Mississippi Business Journal » POSS http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Hybrid Plastics technology used in world’s first synthetic organ transplant http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/01/31/hybrid-plastics-technology-used-in-worlds-first-synthetic-organ-transplant-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hybrid-plastics-technology-used-in-worlds-first-synthetic-organ-transplant-2 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/01/31/hybrid-plastics-technology-used-in-worlds-first-synthetic-organ-transplant-2/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:24:21 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=51408 HATTIESBURG — Technology from a Mississippi company has been used in an international medical breakthrough: Hybrid Plastics’ unique technology called POSS (Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane) was recently used to enable the world’s first synthetic organ transplant. In the surgery performed in June 2011 in Sweden, a terminally ill cancer patient received a new trachea, or windpipe, [...]

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