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Implantable Biosensor with Wireless Reporting
Implantable Biosensor with Wireless Reporting
Here is the claim: “This is the world’s first chip capable of measuring not just pH [MORE]
How the Brain and Immune System Connect
Old and New Lymphatic System Map
The central nervous system does not present lymphatic vessels, or so neuroanatomists have thought at [MORE]
Microscopic Liquid Crystal Lens
Liquid Crystal Forms Compound Lens
Liquid crystals are often associated with electronic displays and cell membranes. But they are widely employed [MORE]
Transforming Blood Cells into Neurons
Neuron in Tissue Culture
According to this piece, neuroscientists at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ont.) assert: “We can actually take a patient’s [MORE]
Ingestible Injector: A Robotic Pill
Rani Therapeutics (San Jose, CA) is in the R&D phase of developing an ingestible pill that has sugar spikes on [MORE]
How a New Antibiotic Was Discovered
Teixobactin Structure
Antibiotic-resistance has been a persistent problem in clinical medicine since sulfonamide resistance was reported in 1939. Still, new soil [MORE]
Regenerating Taste Buds
Taste Buds
Catenin beta-1 is a protein with two roles—it functions is cell-to cell adhesion and in transcription of RNA to [MORE]
Brain Oximetry in Treating Gliomas
Glioblastoma
Gliomas, like other solid tumors, have low oxygen levels (hypoxia) at their cores, which inhibits both chemotherapy and radiation treatments. [MORE]
Subconscious Control of Prosthetic Leg
Ossur Mind Control Limb
The Icelandic prosthetic company Ossur has announced what might be the next generation for artificial limbs. According [MORE]
Lab Grown Lymphatic Cells
Zebrafisth Embryos
It started with filming zebrafish embryonic development and then playing the recording backwards. What investigators at the Weizmann Institute [MORE]
Why We Care About Chicken Flu
It has been nearly a century since the Great Influenza, when an avian influenza mutated to infecting pigs and people. [MORE]
21st Century Cures Act
Personalized Medicine
In case you thought you’d never live to see a unanimous vote on anything in Congress, recall HR 6, [MORE]
Orthopedic Developments
Orthopedic Hand Prosthesis with Feeling
Several of these seven orthopedic breakthroughs have been in Tagline earlier, but here is a recapitulation: [MORE]
Checklist for Device Innovation
Checklist
Many, if not most, of the medical device developers who subscribe to Tagline know about the checklist of things necessary [MORE]