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MicroRNAs in Rebuilding Myelin Sheath of Nerve Cells
Myelin Genes After Treatment with MicroRNA
Researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have found that a short segment of RNA called [MORE]
Immortalized Stem Cells for Growing Blood
Strategies for growing blood from stem cells have proved only marginally successful, because even
Stem Cell
stem cells show the reproductive restriction [MORE]
Device Chip Developments
IMEC Silicon Neuroprobe
This piece is an overview of silicon based devices that are made on the same scale as cells [MORE]
Lab on a Glove
ACS Lab on a Glove
Quoting this piece: “A recent study published in the journal ACS Sensors describes a novel flexible, [MORE]
Surgical Robot Removes Blood Clot in the Eye
Retinal Occlusion
A surgical robot, developed at the University of Leuven in Belgium has been used to perform an extremely delicate [MORE]
Implantable 3D Printed Cartilage Cells
Formation of Blood Vessels
Using a 3-D printer, tissue engineers at Chalmers University (Gothenburg, Sweden) have constructed human cartilage cells on [MORE]
Cell Culture in “Spaghetti”
Stem Cells Cultivated in Spaghetti Polymer
Meanwhile, about a 150 miles south of Gothenburg, tissue engineers at Lund University have shown [MORE]
“A. I. vs M.D.”
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
Readers of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer or The Gene: An Intimate History” know [MORE]
Patenting Surgical Robots
da Vinci Surgical Robot
Over the past 30 years about a thousand patents have been issued or pending for developing surgical [MORE]
Wow Technologies
Vibrio alginolyticus
From sunscreen pills and laser-bonding healing, to permanent artificial organs and personal nanofactories, this piece has ten futuristic technologies [MORE]
UPMC’s Telemedicine Example
Telemedicine
So much of telemedicine thinking focuses on how to reach underserved populations, like elders at home, and patients living in [MORE]
Single Cell Electroporation
A lab team at Rutgers has combined a microfluidics device with electroporation apparatus to open cells as they flow through [MORE]
3-D Printing for Complex Blood Vessel Formations
3D Printing Blood Vessels
“Nanoengineers have 3-D printed a lifelike, functional blood vessel network that could pave the way toward artificial [MORE]
Sequencing Gut Flora
Human Intestinal Cells
Perhaps you’ve seen those DNA tests that genealogy companies advertise on television. They might give a person a [MORE]