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Mini Heart Implants to Improve Circulation
Mini Heart
Much of regenerative medicine-thinking has focused on using stem cells to grow new organs—hearts, bladders, livers, lungs, etc. This [MORE]
Implantable Wireless Glucose Monitor
Glysens Diabetic Monitor
With the diabetic population growing almost exponentially, more effective monitoring is a pot of gold at the [MORE]
Lab-Grown Blood Moving Toward Clinical Trials
O-Negative Blood
Sometime in 2016, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service expects to begin clinical trials of lab-grown Type O-negative [MORE]
Self-Healing Engineered Muscles
Engineered Muscle
To quote directly from this piece: “Living skeletal muscle that contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates quickly into mice, and [MORE]
Sanitizing Hospital Door Handles
Door Handle Sanitizer
Hospital acquired infections happen at a rate of one in twenty five in-patients. Since insurers no longer [MORE]
A Very Smart Bandage
Electronic Skin Patch
Researchers at Seoul National University have created a skin patch with flexible electronics that can detect body [MORE]
DARPAs Biological Technologies Office
DARPA Biotechnologies Office
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), over the past half century, has been responsible for creating the [MORE]
No Skin Off This Nose
Britain Growing Body Parts
This piece reports on regenerative medicine at University College London where bioengineers have previously grown implantable tear [MORE]
MEMS Switch for Ingestible Devices
Coto Technology RedRock MEMS Reed Switch
Reed switches are small electrical devices made of two metallic prongs inside a sealed glass [MORE]
Regenerated Thymus
Thymus
Billed as “the world’s first regeneration of a living organ,” scientists in the University of Edinburgh’s Center for Regenerative Medicine, [MORE]
Light Sensitive Antimicrobial Surface
Light Sensitive Antimicrobial Surface
Hospital acquired infections have taken greater urgency since hospitals are no longer be compensated for treating in-patients [MORE]
Writing Genetic Languages
GenoCAD
If synthetic biologists can develop a recombinant plant that produces a human protein such as interleukin-2 and fold it to [MORE]
The $1,000 Genome, the $15,000 Interpretation Bill, and Five-Sigma
The Human Genome
This item has two parts—the first about the high cost of interpreting DNA sequences, especially regarding prediction, and [MORE]
Engineering Live Biofilms
Bacterial Cells Create Biofilms
Since Roman times, chemists have known that colloidal gold particles in glass have unusual optical features—which became [MORE]