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3-D Printing with Synthetic DNA
Hydrogel
The dream of 3-D printing transplantable organs, even for drug testing, requires hydrogel “inks” that can maintain living cells. To [MORE]
Pulse-Ox by Audio Waveform to a Smartphone
Audio Waveform Pulse Oximetry
LionsGate Technologies, Inc. (Vancouver, BC) has received a US patent on its fingertip pulse oximeter that sends [MORE]
Bioartificial Adrenal Device
Bioartifical Adrenal to Follow Artificial Pancreas
Beta-O2 Technologies Ltd is an Israeli company which has developed an implantable device containing islet [MORE]
The Matchmaker Exchange
Matchmaker Exchange Participants
Some 200,000 people worldwide have had their genomes sequenced, and today it takes about a half hour to [MORE]
Nanowafers for Eye Injuries and Infections
Nanotech Disc for Eye Meds
If you can envision a drug eluting contact lens you have the basic idea of a [MORE]
iRNA Therapy for Glioblastoma
Glioblastoma
Glioblastoma multiforma is one of the deadliest forms of cancer. And, it has proven tenaciously resistant to every form of [MORE]
Guiding Nerve Repairs
3D Printed Guide for Nerve Repair
Severed nerves sometimes can be sutured but materials scientists at University of Sheffield (UK) have [MORE]
A ”Beating Heart” Chip
Heart Cells
It’s no small feat to test drugs on living human heart tissue ex vivo. But that’s what bioengineers at [MORE]
Robotic Ankle with Ground Scanning Camera
Prosthetic Ankle
Engineers at Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI) have developed a prosthetic foot and ankle with a ground scanning camera [MORE]
A Smarter Neural Implant
Multi Function Fiber
Neurons depend upon chemical and electrical signaling simultaneously; so, a smarter neural implant would do the same. To [MORE]
EPIC Welcomes App Developers
Epic Systems EHR
Sometime this year, the US Defense Department will choose a provider for military’s electronic health record—a contract worth [MORE]
Ultrasound on the Brain
Treating Alzheimers with Focusd Ultrasound
In recent years Magnetic Resonance guided Focused Ultrasound has become increasingly successful in ablating small tumors [MORE]
Clot-Busting with Magnetic Nanoparticles
Iron Oxide Core for tPA
When the USFDA first approved recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (aka, “clot buster”) in 1996, it came [MORE]
Detecting Stroke with a Smartphone
Samsung Developing Wearable Sensor for Stroke Detection
Imagine this: your eyeglasses have sensors that fit snug to the temples and are [MORE]