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3-D Printed Hands for Children
3-D Hand
With the gift of a 3-D printer from his wife, a Johns Hopkins trauma surgeon made an artificial hand [MORE]
Wearable Artificial Kidney
Wearable Artificial Kidney
It make take a willing suspension of disbelief to see this wearable artificial kidney allowing dialysis patients to [MORE]
Regenerating Islet Cells
Orgenesis
This piece is light on the details, but the basic idea is to extract liver cells from a Type 1 [MORE]
Tiny Accelerometers
Accelerometers
Spanning less than one millimeter across, a new accelerometer from mCube (San Jose, CA) offers new potential to wearable monitors, [MORE]
Graphene Coated Rubber Bands as Wearable Heart Rate Sensors
Graphene Rubber Band Sensor Monitor
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Surry have embedded graphene into rubber bands [MORE]
Acoustic Cell Sorting
Cell Separation with Acoustic Waves
Cell sorting had long been an interest in livestock breeding and in 1981 researchers figured out [MORE]
Magnetically-Guided Imaging Agent
Silicon Mesoporous Particle
Nanoparticles containing iron oxide not only provide improved imaging, but also can be manipulated inside the body by [MORE]
“Self-Winding” Pacemaker
Batteryless Pacemaker
It’s no surprise that this piece comes from the land of Rolex watches, Switzerland. Researchers at the University of [MORE]
The Sequencer in Your Pocket
minION DNA Sequencer
This device, the “MinIon” from Oxford Nanopore in Britain, does not appear to be ready for “prime time,” [MORE]
Artificial Liver
Artifical Liver
“A novel, human cell-based, bioartificial liver support system is being tested for patients with acute liver failure, often a [MORE]
First 3-D Printed Vertebra Implanted
3D Printed Vertebra
The list of medical applications for 3-D printing seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. This piece [MORE]
Laser-Based Glucose Monitor
Non-Invasive Glucose Readings
Biophysicists at Princeton University have taken a promising step toward monitoring diabetics’ glucose levels without a blood drop. [MORE]
Fourth Dimension Printing: Self-Assembly
4-D Printing
The crucial distinction between 3-D printing and 4-D printing is the latter’s self-assembly capability, according to Skylar Tibbits, director [MORE]
“ClotBuster” Device for Stroke
Culp-Wilson Halo for Stroke
More than a half century ago, Swedish scientists in Uppsala and Stockholm developed the stereotactic radiosurgery technology [MORE]