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Graphene Foam Muscle Scaffolding for Regenerating Tissue
Myoblasts on Graphene Foam
Graphene foam is a compound of graphene oxide and boron nitride that self-assembles into structures resembling chicken [MORE]
Camera Inside a Syringe
Imaging System Fits Inside a Syringe Needle
For the first time, physicists have used 3-D printing to make a complex lens [MORE]
Assistive Robots vs Motivating Apps
RoboMadness West
One of the questions a panel of robotic engineers addressed at a conference this past June was the relative [MORE]
Making Electronic Skin Like the Real Thing
Electronic Skin
The video in this piece, from the American Chemical Society, describes materials engineering work at Stanford University which aims [MORE]
Detecting Colon Polyps in Urine
Urine Test
A recent newswire story announced that Advanced Diagnostic Laboratories (Bensalem, PA) is now offering a urine test for precancerous [MORE]
Greed with Stem Cells
Stem Cells from Adipose Tissue
It wouldn’t come as a surprise that clinics in foreign countries are offering fraudulent (or at [MORE]
Improving Bio-Ink for Better 3-D Printing
3-D Bioprinting University of Bristol
Researchers at the University of Bristol (UK) have been able to 3-D print a full-size tracheal [MORE]
Nokia’s Telemed Collaboration with Helsinki University Hospital
EEG via Nokia Phone
Some of you, particularly our friends in Finland, will remember that Nokia sponsored our first medical automation [MORE]
Magnetic Clot Buster
Magnetic Particles Break Down Clot
Last week’s Tagline had a piece about blood clot retrievers. Here, we see a different approach [MORE]
Automated Computer Vision Diagnoses Barrett’s Esophagus
Esophageal Cancer
Using 100 endoscopic images from 44 patients with Barrett’s esophagus as a study set, researchers at Eidhoven University of [MORE]
Guiding Epidural Needles
Epidural Placement Guide
The epidural space of the spine exists between the vertebrae and dura, beneath which is the arachnoid space [MORE]
Custom Bioreactor for Growing Bones
Lab-Grown Living Bone
Jawbone defects have been corrected using bone tissue taken from elsewhere in the patient’s body and implanted where [MORE]
E. Coli Hand-Held Biosensor
Sensor Detects E. Coli
Foodborne illnesses strike about 48 million people in the US every year, which often results is massive [MORE]
Another Social Care Robot, “Floka”
Floka Robot
Bielefeld University, in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia state, has a university-wide collaborative group of 250 researchers working under the title [MORE]