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A Simple Method for Inducing Pluripotent Stem Cells
Embryonic Stem Cells
In what may be the story of the year, if not of the century, researchers at Japan’s RIKEN [MORE]
Growing Skin with Blood and Lymph Capillaries
Cross-section Skin
When natural skin is grafted onto, say, a burn site, its full thickness contains blood and lymphatic capillaries, sebaceous [MORE]
The Last Decade’s Ten Most Important Technological Advances
Solohealth Station
You may not agree with Becker’s list of the ten biggest technological advances for healthcare in the last decade, [MORE]
3-D Printed EEG Headset
3-D Printed EEG Headset
Here’s a low cost portal for electroencephalograph — a 3-D printed harness with correctly positioned brain wave [MORE]
Laser-Enabled Breath Analysis
Breath Analysis
Breath has a physiological “fingerprint” from the small amounts of gases that are released from both healthy and diseases [MORE]
Bionic Eye Implanted
Bionic Eye
Last year, the FDA approved a vision device system consisting of a pair of glasses with camera, a belt-worn [MORE]
Self-Healing Polymer
Dynamicpolyurea
This piece describes a “dynamic polyuria” developed at the University of Illinois, which has stretchable and self-healing characteristics as might [MORE]
Implantable Thoracic Endoprosthesis
Cardiothoracic Surgery at U Michigan
In late January, surgeons at the University of Michigan, for the first time, implanted an artificial [MORE]
Evolution of RFID
EmbraceRF-app-web
Hospitals have wheelchairs stolen; nurses might hide an infusion pump so they can find it when needed; expensive surgical [MORE]
Minimally-Invasive Mitral Valve Replacement
Neovasc-Tiara Mitral Valve
Since 2002, heart surgeons have been able to use a catheter in performing aortic valve repair, and since [MORE]
Factory-Made Human Organs
Artifical Trachea
Harvard Apparatus Regeneration Technology, Inc. (Holliston, MA) is a spin off from Harvard Bioscience specifically to grow transplantable synthetic [MORE]
Geisinger-Regeneron’s Big Data Project
DNA Genomics Research
There’s a gold rush among major healthcare providers to acquire tissue samples for biobanks which in turn support [MORE]
Toxin Biosensor for Smart Phones
iColour Analyser
Bundling bacteriophage into a patterned “material,” bioengineers at the University of California at Berkeley fabricated a biosensor that shows [MORE]
Digital Documents for Clinical Trials
Digital Documents
It’s worth knowing that before long the FDA will require drug makers to submit their clinical trial documents electronically. [MORE]