November 1, 2011
Bloomberg
Vibrating Gel May Give New Voice to Throat-Cancer Patients
By Elizabeth Lopatto
Bob Langer may be the last, best hope
for aging rockers. Just ask Roger Daltrey, The Who's lead singer.
Langer, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist whose work has created two dozen biotechnology startups, is developing a gel that can vibrate up to 200 times a second -- replicating the action of human vocal cords -- to rejuvenate the damaged voices of singers such as Daltrey and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler ...
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