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Growing Functional Stomach Tissue in the Lab
Tissue-Engineered Human Stomach Tissues
Quoting directly: “Scientists [at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital] have used pluripotent stem cells to generate human stomach tissues [MORE]
Single Cell Sequencing
Bio-Rad Illumina Single-Cell Genome Analysis
Early last month, the collaboration between Illumina (San Diego, CA) and Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, CA) released [MORE]
“Living Bandage” of Stem Cells for Knee Injury
Knee Anatomy
Meniscus tears are the bane of sport players from school field games to the big leagues. Moreover, these injuries [MORE]
Frugal Scientists: Toy Centrifuge and Paper Microscope
PATH’s $1 Folding Paper Microscope Developed at Stanford
There are two pieces in this entry—the first about a homemade centrifuge for [MORE]
500+ Gene Liquid Biopsy
Blood Sample
Liquid biopsy isn’t yet the gold standard for tumor analysis, but it is moving rapidly in that direction. This [MORE]
Light Activated Drugs in Red Blood Cells
Model of Vit B12
A central aim of precision medicine is getting the right amount of drug to the right location, [MORE]
Data Analytics When Patients Don’t Trust Data
Health Technology
Now, as we proceed into the era of “big data” healthcare, a recent survey reveals that more than half [MORE]
Multiregional Brain-on-a-Chip
Brain on a Chip
A bioengineering group at Harvard has built a brain-on-a-chip that models the neural connectome. This microfluidics device [MORE]
Regenerating the Epicardium of the Human Heart
Heart Cells from Stem Cells Lance Lian
Researchers at Penn State University have discovered that by chemically manipulating the Wnt signaling [MORE]
How Neural Organization Develops in an Infant
fMRI
Infants, younger than four months, have multipurpose brains that have not yet specialized in processing information such as facial recognition. [MORE]
Implantable Micromachines
Implantable Microrobots
Hydrogels have come a long way since Dutch chemist and physician Jacob Maarten van Bemmelen first described their nature [MORE]
Continuous Glucose and Lactate Monitoring
OptiScanner 6000
OptiScan Medical (Hayward, CA) has received the EU’s approval for a medical device that measures glucose and lactate levels [MORE]
Micromolding in Making Medical Equipment
Micro Molding Medical Device
Size matters in making minimally invasive surgical devices, and generally, the smaller the better. This piece describes [MORE]
Synthetic Anti-Venom Nanoparticle
Snake Milking
With pains-taking trial and error methods (aka “directed evolution”) researchers at the University of California-Irvine have made nanoparticles that [MORE]