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Silly Putty as a Vital Signs Sensor
Silly Putty Sensor
Mixing a small amount of graphene into the child’s toy “Silly Putty” results in a material that can [MORE]
A “Neural Tourniquet” to Stop Bleeding Anywhere in the Body
Neural Tourniquet
Most wouldn’t guess that hacking the vagus nerve could staunch a hemorrhage, but that is exactly what researchers at [MORE]
Blood from Skin Cells
Making Blood From Skin Cells
It doesn’t take much of a snowstorm for hospital blood supplies to run low, though a [MORE]
Magnetic Separation of Bacteria in Blood
Blood purification Stopperbild
Since the 1980’s it has been possible to separate hematopoietic stem cells from a bone marrow harvest using [MORE]
InterAtrial Shunt Device
Corvia Medical Atrial Heart Device
About half of heart failure patients suffer from a stiffened heart muscle that causes blood to [MORE]
Audible Guidance for the Blind
Horus Wearable Device for Blind
Eyra Ltd (Chiasso, Switzerland) is an R&D firm working in artificial intelligence, deep learning, and computer [MORE]
Growing Liver Organoids in a Microfluidic Device
Microfluidics
Being able to grow liver organoids in a microfluidic device for drug testing in advance of animal or human experiments [MORE]
Teaching Anatomy with Augmented Reality
Microsoft Hololens
When Case Western Reserve University opens its new medical education campus in 2018, med students won’t have a cadaver [MORE]
Detecting Infections in Prostheses
Hip Prosthesis
Last summer, D. A. Henderson, who led WHO’s Smallpox Eradication Campaign, died from a MRSA infection following a prosthetic [MORE]
Biomaterials: Liquid Silk
Pure Liquid Silk – Fibroin
Silk Therapeutics Inc. (Medford, M.A.) is a skin care company at present, using pure fibroin (silk [MORE]
Soft Tissue Membrane from Umbilical Cord for Modulating Inflammation during Surgery
Avive Soft Tissue Membrane
In some cases of nerve grafting, surgeons use a conduit to hold severed endings in place, and [MORE]
Lab Grown Cartilage from Stem Cells for Hip Prosthetics
Joint pain, especially from arthritis, seems to be part of the fate of aging. Artificial prosthetics offer some relief, but [MORE]
Home Vital Signs Monitoring Device
OslerMD Vital Signs
OslerMD (San Diego, CA) is moving toward commercial release of its Rapid Vital Sign Measuring Device, which uses [MORE]
“Fingerprinting” the Brain
Carnegie Mellon Hackathon
Quoting directly: “A research team led by Carnegie Mellon University used diffusion MRI to measure the local connectome [MORE]