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Nano Magnets for Thawing Frozen Tissues
It has long been known that freezing tissues, such as arteries, extends their “shelf life” for transplantation, but problems arise [MORE]
A Nasal Swab to Detect Lung Cancer
Nasal Swab
For persistent smokers, their “airway field of injury” extends all the way from their bronchial epithelium to the cells [MORE]
Three-in-One Fiber Offers Options for Brain Devices
MIT Multifunction Fibe
With a new thin-as-a-human-hair flexible fiber, MIT engineers were able to deliver optical, electrical and chemical signaling to [MORE]
Drug Releasing Implant that is Magnetically Triggered
Month by month, it seems, bioengineers are finding increasingly clever means for controlling drug release with implanted devices. This piece [MORE]
Propelling Nanorobots by Enzyme Action or Ultrasound
Dr. Sámuel Sánchez Nanorobot Researcher
Injectable robots—sometimes called microswimmers—raise two sorts of engineering problems: design of the device itself, and its [MORE]
Imaging that Distinguishes Dementia from Depression
Brain SPECT Scans
Single proton emission computed tomography (SPECT) relies on injected gamma ray-emitting radioisotopes which results in true 3-D images [MORE]
A 3-D Printed “Eagle Eye” Lens
Eagle Eye
Camera innovations that support driverless cars and flying surveillance drones might also be used to have better vision from [MORE]
Genomics Using DNA Storage and Retrieval
DNA
Computer scientists have long marveled at DNA’s information storage capacity, and consequently have imagined how DNA itself might be used [MORE]
Growing Mouse Embryos from Stem Cells
Mouse
For the first time, researchers at the University of Cambridge have created mouse embryo from stem cells in the lab. [MORE]
“Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot”
Robotic Surgery
In soft tissue surgery, the tissue can deform or become covered in blood obscuring what the surgeon is doing. [MORE]
Nanoparticle-Enabled Gene Editing
CRISPR Delivery Mechanism
Getting CRISPR-Cas 9 molecules to their target cells without damage or off-targeting has been an obstacle for gene [MORE]
Salt Coating on Surgical Masks Inhibits Virus
Surgical Mask
It has been 99 years since the Great Influenza pandemic at the end of World War I. Old pictures [MORE]
Nanofiber Matrix for Culturing Human Stem Cells
Three Dimensional Stem Cell Growth
Most tissue culturing of pluripotent stem cells is done in petri dishes which distorts the shape [MORE]
Nanoelectronic “Thread” for Brain Probes
Neural Network
Biomechanical engineers at the University of Texas-Austin have made nanoelectronic thread for inserting probes into the brain. According to [MORE]