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Nano-Medical Robotics
VCSN Nano Medical Robot
What is a nano-medical robot you ask? Here’s one example: a Vascular Cartographic Scanning Nanodevice (VCSN) [MORE]
Sugar-Based Tracing Agent for PET
Since 1976, when medical scientists at the University of Pennsylvania first used fluorodeoxyglucose (deoxyglucose with a fluorine 18 [MORE]
FDA Approves Illumina’s “Next Generation” Sequencer
Illuminax299
Last November, the US Food and Drug Administration gave approval for the first time that high throughput-DNA sequencing can [MORE]
Printing Retinas
3D Printed Retina
Ophthalmology researchers at Cambridge University have taken a large step toward engineering functional retinas using an ink [MORE]
Methylome Biomarkers for Schizophrenia
Not all genetic diseases arise from mutations. Some result from DNA methylation—i.e. post translational modification. With schizophrenia, oxygen deprivation, [MORE]
Surgical Glue for Beating Hearts
Glue interdigitates with collagen fibers
Slugs have at least one admirable quality—their viscous fluid can form strong bonds under water. [MORE]
Walmart’s “Blue Light” Special for Health Care
Walmart
We may need an update on the line “what’s good for GM is good for the country.” Walmart might [MORE]
Artificial Bone Marrow
Stem Cells in a Scaffold Structure
Biochemists at three centers in Germany have created macroporous scaffolds from hydrogel that mimic [MORE]
Heart Pump without Blood Contact
C Pulse Heart Assist System
A Minnesota company, Sunshine Heart (Eden Prairie, MN) has developed a balloon device that fits [MORE]
Best Bets on Game Changers
Nanoknife System
The Emergency Care Research Institute, ECRI (Plymouth Meeting, PA), began in 1968 to do research on emergency [MORE]
Biomarker/Sensor for Brain Injury During Heart Surgery
Schematic of an OTFT Device
Organic thin film transistors are dramatically changing the design and development of medical devices, and [MORE]
How to Print a 3D Ear
Prof. Lawrence Bonassar
Watch the video in this piece, which begins with “I’m Dr. Bonasser and my lab makes ears.” [MORE]
Hospitals’ Price to Cost Ratio
The Institute for Health & Socio-Economic Policy has listed the 100 hospitals in the US with the highest price [MORE]
Best Practices for eICU’s
Tele ICU
Electronic intensive care units—which use telemonitoring to round on critical ill patients—made slow progress in hospitals before the [MORE]