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“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]
Therapeutic Angiogenesis via Autophagy
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Last month, Yoshinori Ohsumi won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries about the cellular [MORE]
Growing Hair from Bioprinted Follicles
Hair Follicle
In 2015, the hair and skin products company L’Oreal partnered with Organovo to bioprint human skin for cosmetics testing. [MORE]
Nanowire Detection of Prostate Cancer
Memristor
Quoting directly: “[Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)] researchers have managed to get around this obstacle by inventing a new [MORE]
More Humanoid Assistive Robots
Asimo Robot
Someday, your best friend may be a robot! Outlandish as that sounds, sophisticated mechanical and electrical engineering, along with [MORE]
First Wearable PET Scanner
Wearable PET Scanner
It must be more than a small problem to do a brain scan of a patient with Parkinson’s [MORE]
Biomedical System-on-a-Chip for Wearables
IMEC Integrated System-on-a Chip
Belgian and Dutch engineers have used nanoelectronics to build an integrated sensor system-on-a-chip that can monitor a [MORE]
Growing New Brains
Turning Skin Cells nto-Brain Cells-
First off, this piece is not about tissue culturing adult sized brains that might be capable [MORE]