Newsletter
Cleveland Clinic’s Top Ten Innovations of the Year
Vaccines
Cleveland Clinic’s Innovation Summit highlights medical advances every year, and for 2015, out of 246 candidates, judges chose ten winners, [MORE]
Blood Test for Drug Response to Prostate Cancer
Blood Test
Blood tests that replace tissue biopsies are a growing field in cancer research. This piece describes work at the [MORE]
Viral Melanoma Therapy
T-VEC
The search for oncolytic viruses which can destroy malignant tumors directly or indirectly has been going on for over a [MORE]
CRISPR-Enabled Xenotransplants
Crystal Structure of Cas9
A pig’s heart is about the same size as a human’s, but a xenotransplant has not been [MORE]
Wearable Sensor Measures Blood Flow
“Clever” was coined for an idea like this. A professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed a [MORE]
Advantages of Hand-Held Nanopore Sequencers
MinION Setup
We’re seeing more and increasingly favorable reports about Oxford Nanopore’s “MinION” hand-held DNA sequencer. This piece says: “As a [MORE]
DARPA’s Self-Healing Body Concept
DARPA ElectRx Electric Prescriptions
DARPA, the folks who gave us the internet and GPS, now imagine implanting sensors in the body [MORE]
Finding Small Chromosome Abnormalities with DNA Sequencing
DNA Sequencing
In July 2012, researchers at Stanford University announced that they had sequenced the entire genome of a fetus using [MORE]
Vapor Therapy System to Ablate Lung Tumors
Lung Tumor Ablation
Using a technology called “InterVapor” (from Uptake Medical, Tustin, CA) physicians ablated a colon cancer metastasis to the [MORE]
Autonomous Surgical Robots
Johnson and Johnson Sedasys System
This piece is generally about the rise and future of surgical robots, but the first thing [MORE]
Implantable Gastric Monitoring Chip
Gastric Implant
Indigestion, cramps, malnutrition and endocrine disorders are some of the consequences of gastric dysrhythmias and there are no good [MORE]
Optofluidic Flu Strain Scanner
UCSC MicrofluidicChip
Quoting directly from this piece: “New on-chip technology enabled researchers from UC Santa Cruz and Brigham Young University to [MORE]
Growing Skin into Nerves
Aging Human Brain Cells
So, that’s how it works! Membranes that contain the nucleus of neurons deteriorate from aging and allow [MORE]
Monitoring the Immune System Noninvasively
Leukometer
Patients undergoing anticancer chemotherapy need frequent blood monitoring to see if the drugs are killing off more white blood cells [MORE]