The device, called a milli-spinner, is a tiny, powerfully rotating hollow tube outfitted with fins and slits. In action, both ...

New milli-spinner technology from Stanford offers breakthrough in blood clot treatment by compressing clots to 5% of original ...

Stanford faculty Jeremy J. Heit and Renee Zhao demonstrate how to insert the milli-spinner using a life-sized model of the human circulatory system. Credit: Aaron Kehoe A surprising success ...

Stanford faculty Jeremy J. Heit and Renee Zhao demonstrate how to insert the milli-spinner using a life-sized model of the human circulatory system.

Renee Zhao, the senior author of the Nature paper who teaches mechanical engineering at Stanford and creates what she calls "millirobots," said that conventional thrombectomies just aren't cutting it.

Stanford's milli-spinner removes tough clots by shrinking them, not tearing them, ... dramatically reducing the volume without causing rupture,” said Renee Zhao, ...

Stanford researchers have discovered a breakthrough technology that shrinks and removes blood clots to treat strokes, heart attacks, and other clot-related diseases.

Renee Zhao, the Stanford engineer who designed the milli-spinner. Mechanical thrombectomy is a minimally invasive procedure by which blood clots are removed.

New milli-spinner technology from Stanford offers breakthrough in blood clot ... They rely on deforming and rupturing the clot to remove it," said senior author Renee Zhao, an assistant professor ...