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Thermophotonic Lock-In Imaging for Earlier Detection of Dental Caries
Basic Panoramic Dental X-Ray
Conventional dental x-radiographs do not have the specificity and sensitivity to detect early dental cavities, when they [MORE]
Drug Delivery via MRI
MRI
By “hacking” a conventional MRI machine, researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital were able to steer ferrous nanoparticles through the blood [MORE]
An Electronic Tongue
Wine Tasting
For those who don’t remember Graham Chapman’s 1989 hilarious review of Australian table wines (Monty Python’s Flying Circus), here’s [MORE]
Glucose Sensing Contact Lens
Glucose Sensing Contact Lens
“Blood, Sweat and Tears” used to be a jazz-rock band, but now this trio refers to detecting [MORE]
Graphene-Stabilized Lipid Biosensor
Graphene
Quoting directly: “For the first time researchers succeeded to place a layer of graphene on top of a stable fatty [MORE]
A Bioabsorbable Heart Valve
Heart Valves
Children born with defective pulmonary heart valve disease had to rely on animal or human cadaver tissue for repairs, [MORE]
C.S. Draper Lab’s Artificial Lung
Lung Assist Draper Laboratories
Since 1953, when Dr. John Gibbon invented the first heart-lung machine, open heart surgeries of all kinds [MORE]
“Atrial 4-D Flow CMR”
Cardiac Imaging
Besides the unsettling fear from an irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation increases a patient’s stroke risk. To gage that risk, [MORE]
Anti-Inflammation Nanoparticles for Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis of the Knee
In mouse studies, researchers at Washington University of St. Louis School of Medicine have shown that nanoparticles [MORE]
“The Window to the Brain” Project
Transparent Skull Implant
A collaboration between bioengineers in California and Mexico has brought forward an intriguing concept—a window in the skull [MORE]
Organovo’s 3-D Printed Liver Patches for Transplants
3-D Printed Liver Tissue
Much of the work in liver tissue regeneration has focused on making micro-organelles for drug testing. But [MORE]
Hand-Held POC Coagulation Analyzer
Siemen’s Xprecia
The US FDA has approved Siemens’ point-of-care blood coagulation analyzer, “Xprecia Stride” It is used, somewhat like a glucometer, [MORE]
Bone Ink for 3-D Printers
Ramille Shah Created Hyper-Elastic 3D Printed Bone
In 3-D bioprinting, it’s more a matter of the ink than of the printer [MORE]
New Stem Cell Strategy for Spinal Cord Injury
HESCs at Day 4
Since James Thompson and John Gearhart first reported success in isolating and growing human embryonic stem cells [MORE]