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Lattice Light-Sheet Microscopy
Eric Betzig, PhD
Tomorrow, Eric Betzig, a lab chief at HHMI’s Janelia Research Center in Virginia, will receive a share of [MORE]
The One Minute POC Test for Anemia
Prototype of Rapid POC Anemia Test
Today, it’s only a distant memory, before 1980, of what it was like for a [MORE]
Prosthetic Skin with Touch Sensing
Wireless Pressure Sensor
Stanford University engineers have developed a wireless pressure sensor that’s small enough to sit on the tip of [MORE]
Regenerating Muscle Tissue in situ
Muscle Tissue Regeneration in-situ
In another remarkable experiment, regenerative medicine researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, were able to implant [MORE]
“Little Moe” Against Ebola
Little Moe Robot
When this piece appeared, Thomas Eric Duncan was still alive in Texas Presbyterian Hospital. Ironically, TPH was one [MORE]
Perspective on Data-Driven Healthcare
Data Driven Healthcare
Hippocrates would have understood the concept of “data-driven healthcare, but neither he nor most people before the last [MORE]
Anti-inflammatory Molecules in Regenerative Medicine
Anthony Atala, MD
Eight years ago, Anthony Atala, at Wake Forest University, implanted the first laboratory grown bladders in children. As [MORE]
Growing Blood Vessels in a Week
Preparation of Blood Vessels in the Lab
This report from Sahlgrenska University in Gothenburg, Sweden is astonishing, but short on important [MORE]
Kidney Structures from 3-D Printing
3D Printed Capillaries
Printing organs does not appear to be on the near term horizon, but persistently 3-D printing is moving [MORE]
Blood Marker Test for Depression
RNA
Here’s a piece that well illustrates Leroy Hood’s “4 P’s” of personalized medicine (i.e. personalized, predictive, preventative, participatory). Investigators at [MORE]
DARPA’s Artificial Spleen
Prototype Artifical Spleen
While the military has a special need to control sepsis, civilian mortality in the US reaches 170,000 annually, [MORE]
Osteoarthritis Evaluation by Sound Waves
Sound Wave Detection of Osteoarthritis
Researchers at Lancaster University (UK) have developed a diagnostic device that assesses arthritic knees based on [MORE]
Implantable/Dissolvable Sensors
Dissolvable Electronic Devices
This says it all: “Electronic devices that dissolve completely in water, leaving behind only harmless end products, are [MORE]
Make Your Own Micropump
Pulsing Fluidic Micropump
Where necessity is the mother of either invention or “make do,” this little piece of advice with materials [MORE]