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Anticancer Bacteriobots
Bacteriobots
Here’s a new example of multimodalities in anticancer strategy: South Korean scientists have inserted nanocapsules containing anticancer drugs into genetically [MORE]
iHealth “Smart Cuff” for Hypertension/Endothelial Function Monitoring
iHealth Cuff
iHealthLabs (Mountain View, CA) manufactures several wireless devices for health monitoring—a scale, activity and sleep tracker, pulse oximeter, and [MORE]
Real Time Seeing Radiation Kill Cancer
The brilliant blue light we associate with radioactive fuel rods in a reactor’s pool is due to particles moving through [MORE]
Microparticles to Repair Heart Damage
TECH-DIAGRAM-COUR
Using microparticles made of biodegradable polyglycolic acid, which has an electrical affinity for inflammatory monocytes, c (Elmhurst, IL) Cour Pharmacetical [MORE]
Wearable Sensor Measures Body Movements
Mbody Suit
Kuopio, in central Finland, is a small city with many physically fit university students who are involved in competitive [MORE]
Sensor that Monitors Drug Dosage
MEDIC
Anticancer chemotherapy has had some similarities to gunfire range-finding: too much, then too little to find the effective “shot” somewhere [MORE]
Robotics in Hiring for Healthcare
Laboratory Robotics
A company that analyzes help wanted advertisements for healthcare positions reports that more than 15,000 ads in 2013 [MORE]
Maintaining Pluripotency in hESC’s
hESCs
Since 2001, when the USFDA approved “Gleevec” for clinical use, scientists, oncologists and cancer patients alike have understood “signal induction [MORE]
Vibration as a Protein Property
Terahertz Near Field Microscope
Considering a cell as analogous to a factory, because of all the motions that go on inside, [MORE]
A Blood Test for the Cause of Stroke
Ischemia Care
Acute ischemic stroke is life threatening, but can be reversible if the restricted blood flow is corrected quickly, which [MORE]
Regenerating Heart Valves Robotically
Tricuspid Heart Valve
Using an endoscopic robot to insert a tube made of extracellular matrix, surgeons at Temple University Hospital have [MORE]
Holographic Diagnostics
Hologram
Scientists at Cambridge University have invented a new kind of diagnostic device. They embedded silver nanoparticles in hydrogel. When a [MORE]
Transcriptome Profiling in a Single Living Cell
Eberwine Nature Methods image
It is assumed that cells behave differently in vivo and in vitro, but a University of Pennsylvania [MORE]
Cholesterol Check via iPhone
SmartCard
Hardly a day passes without news of another smartphone device, app, or cloud information integrator for health monitoring. This piece [MORE]