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CRISPR Again
CRISPR DNA
Tagline first mentioned the gene-editing technique CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palendromic repeats) on March 12, 2013 shortly after [MORE]
It Looks Like a Speck of Dust; it is a Catheter Chip for Internal Imaging
Chip to Visualize Heart in 3-D for Surgery
First, think of an ultrasound device with 56 transmitters and 48 receivers, then [MORE]
CRO with Searchable Database of Human Tissue
Lab Myograph
Biopta, Ltd. (Glasgow, UK) is a contract research organization that does drug testing using only fresh human tissue. [MORE]
GPS Chip for Wearable Devices
Wearables
Broadcom Corporation (Germantown, MD) is one of those “connect everything” companies which seems to have found a strategy for success. [MORE]
Nanoparticles in Vaccine Production
On-Demand-Vaccine
With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, researchers at the University of Washington have developed and carried [MORE]
UCSF and Samsung’s Center for Digital Healthcare Innovation
CDH Web mHealth Program App
What might be in store for a major medical research university in Silicon Valley teaming up [MORE]
Costliest Surgeries
Surgical Suite
This listing of just 20 surgical procedures accounts for 58% of costs for all hospital surgeries and 27% of [MORE]
ALS, A Prion Disease?
ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is an incurable motor neuron disease with no known cure. It afflicts about 140,000 people each year [MORE]
Genomic Benchmarking
Human Genome in 3-D
In the beginning, there were the government supported Human Genome Mapping Project, and the privately funded one [MORE]
Pharmacy Automation at Home
Philips' Home Medication Dispensing System
This commercial piece announces Royal Philips’ automated, compact drug dispensers with a dedicated web-based IT connection [MORE]
240 Genomes Sequenced in 50 hours
Beagle Computer
The day of the $1,000 genome may have already arrived, but that’s only for the cost of sequencing. Analyzing [MORE]
“Living Liquid Crystal” Diagnostics
Bacteria in Living Liquid Crystal
When we think of liquid crystals, the LCD’s of nearly every electronic device come to mind. [MORE]
3-D Printing of Pediatric Devices
Williams Intubator
Children are not a mass market for developing medical devices; moreover, pediatrics typically is not a revenue-positive practice for [MORE]
Nanotech Wave in Healthcare
Nano Batteries
This piece mistakenly attributes “nanotechnology” to American engineer Eric Drexler who popularized it in his 1992 book, Nanosystems. Drexler [MORE]