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Using CRISPR/Cas for “Knock In” Cassettes
CRISPR
“Knock out” mice—so called because one of several means has been used to inactivate a murine gene—have been invaluable research [MORE]
The World of Wearables
This infographic piece doesn’t show the wearable world map in great detail, but it has all the continents of the [MORE]
Sleep Monitoring Headphones
Kokoon EEG Head Phones
A person’s blood pressure drops to its lowest point during REM sleep and without three periods of [MORE]
Remote Control of Clinical Labs
Optima XPN Centrifuge
Distance monitoring through a communications app and remote controls may ultimately become a highly useful automation tool for [MORE]
Sterilizing RFID Tags
Tego inlay RFID
The radio frequency identification tag is an extremely useful tool for managing everything that moves in a hospital. [MORE]
Spinning Polymers into Artificial Blood Vessels
New blood vessels regenerated from a person’s stem cells have great promise, but when a patient needs a replaced blood [MORE]
Clipping Off Antigens for Universal Type O blood
Bloodbags
This is an “almost there” story. Researchers at the University of British Columbia created a “mutant” enzyme that clips A [MORE]
Choosing the Right Antibiotic
Lab on a Chip
Johns Hopkins engineers have designed a microfluidics chip that can demonstrate which antibiotics work against which pathogens. [MORE]
Silk Sponges as Implantable Tissue Scaffolding
Quoting from the journal abstract, a team of US and Australian bioengineers report: “We present a silk biomaterial platform with [MORE]
Chemotherapy Eluting Implant
MIT Personalized Medicine
MIT researchers have devised a tiny, implantable device that can deliver small doses of up to 30 different [MORE]
Perspective on Telemedicine
Telemedicine
It may be that the Affordable Care Act has now pushed telemedicine to its “tipping point.” By promoting alternative payment [MORE]
Precise Measurement for Prosthetic Fit
Measuring System for Determining Leg Length
Those of you facing a hip replacement, now or eventually, ought to ask the surgeon [MORE]
Topical Nanoparticle Ointment for Wound Healing
Aquaphor
Diabetes can create horrendous wounds that defy healing and sometime result in amputations. To address this, dermatologists at Northwestern University [MORE]
Memristor Computer Chips
Memristor
In electrical engineering theory, there are four classes of circuitry: resistors, capacitors, inductors, and memristors. The first three have been [MORE]