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NaNose Breathalyzer
Tumors are known to release volatile organic compounds, which is why dogs can be trained to sniff out lung [MORE]
Artificial Pancreas System
Artificial Pancreas
People with Type 1 diabetes are especially vulnerable at night, when their glucose level can fall precipitously and cause [MORE]
Self-Assembling Protein Fibers
Creating a Self-Assembling Protein
“Amyloid” brings to mind a rogue’s gallery of human afflictions, from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s to atherosclerosis and [MORE]
Iontophoresis, Drug Delivery by Electrical Waves
Iontophoresis
If you recall electrophoresis experiments from your high school biology class, you’ve seen how ions in an electrical current can [MORE]
“And the Winners Are….” The Oscars for Medical Devices
Sonosite180Plus Hand-Carried Ultrasound System
The Medical Design Excellence Awards are the “Oscars” for device design, and the company that has won [MORE]
A Lesson about Personalized Drug Dosing
3D Integrated Pharmaceuticals
This piece describes a process called “3-D integrated pharmaceuticals” which relies on prefabricated components that can be assembled, [MORE]
Smartphone Otoscope
Cellscope Home Otoscope
For some time now, it looked like medical kiosks with their digital instruments for examining patient’s ears, nose [MORE]
3-D Printing of Tracheal Cartilage
Makerbot 3D Printed Trachea Cartilage
The trachea, a windpipe that connects the lungs and throat, is a cartilage structure that can [MORE]
Artificial Blood Vessels
Tissue Engineering Vascular Graft
3-D printing is not the only means for making artificial structures; another technique is electro-spinning, which is [MORE]
Trans-Oral Robotic Surgery
TORS
The Da Vinci surgical robot is most often seen in prostate cancer operations, but in this piece a Head & [MORE]
Human Proteome Atlas Published
Image from the Human Protein Atlas
With funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Stockholm, Sweden) a multinational proteomics collaboration [MORE]
Glucolight
Glucolight Sensor
Researchers at the Swiss University Hospital Zurich have developed a blood sugar monitoring device that takes its readings through [MORE]
Venter’s Human Longevity, Inc.
J. Craig Venter
Its banner reads: “Aging is the single biggest risk factor for virtually every significant human disease. . .” [MORE]
The Robot-Assisted Hospital as It Now Exists
Tug Robot
When the University of California San Francisco’s Mission Bay Hospital opened early this year, it claimed to have “the [MORE]