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3-D Printing with Stem Cells
Nano Dimensions 3D Print Stem Cells
In 1999, Anthony Atala’s regenerative medicine group at Wake Forest University used a 3-D bioprinter [MORE]
Robust Dipstick Urinalysis
Stanford Home Urine Test
For diabetics, first it was the DIY urine dipstick in 1956, then the personal glucometer for home [MORE]
Perspective on Dissolvable Medical Electronics
Dissolvable Memristor
Since 1971, electrical engineers have sought to understand the concept of “memristor”—i. e. a circuit that can do two [MORE]
Measuring Cardiac Troponin in 10 minutes
Philips Minicare I-20
Immediately after a heart attack, the heart muscle floods a protein, cardiac troponin I, into the blood stream [MORE]
Polymer Fills Spinal Tumor Cavity After Excision
Polymer Graph
Surgeons who remove spinal tumors or crushed vertebrae have to fill the gap left behind. Metal cages and titanium [MORE]
POC Device for Hospital Acquired Infections
PAD Device
In proof-of-principle research, bioengineers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a point-of-care device that can interface with a table [MORE]
Photonics Device for Diagnosing Thyroid Cancer
A European consortium has developed, and is testing, a new device for diagnosing thyroid nodules which would indicate whether they [MORE]
3-D Bioprinted Placenta for Research on Pre-Eclampsia
Placenta Anatomy
Pre-eclampsia, also known as pregnancy- induced hypertension, can be life threatening to the mother and its only known treatment [MORE]
Millennium Prize for “Directed Evolution”
Frances Arnold Receives Millennium Prize
In directed evolution, bioengineers subject a gene to repeated mutagenesis in order to create an array [MORE]
Sony’s “Recording” Contact Lens
Sony Recording Contact Lens
“[Objective] To provide a contact lens and storage medium capable of controlling an image pickup unit provided [MORE]
When Robotic Surgeons Perform More Reliably than Human Ones
Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot
Between torn muscle repairs and hernia operations, more than 45 million soft tissue surgeries are performed in [MORE]
Kidney-on-a-Chip
Ryan Oliver Makes Kidney on Chip
Bioengineers at the University of Michigan have developed a microfluidics chip containing live kidney cells [MORE]
Nano Motor for Internal Robots?
Expanding Polymer-Coated Gold Nanoparticles
Physicists at the Cavendish Laboratory (University of Cambridge) have created a nano-scale “piston engine” that might, one [MORE]
Self-Healing Artificial Muscle
Stretchable, Self-Healing Polymer
For a synthetic material to mimic human muscle, it must be flexible, self-healing, stable at normal temperatures, and [MORE]