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Healthcare Data Rising at 48%/yr. So What?
Internet of Things
Science depends on data, and there’s an avalanche of it. But, as this piece reports, 90% of healthcare [MORE]
Kidney-on-a-Chip Goes to the ISS
International Space Station
According to a pharmacy professor at the University of Washington, weightlessness accelerates kidney diseases. “In the microgravity environment [MORE]
Temperature Reading Smartphone Monitors Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Podimetricspic
Diabetic foot ulcers are implicated in some 100,000 amputations each year. In most instances, the problem does present until the [MORE]
A Vest that Uses Radar to Image Lungs
SensiVest Fitting
Ohio State University is conducting a clinical trial of a vest, made by Sensible Medical (Netanya, Israel) that uses [MORE]
A Wearable Diabetes Monitor that Detects Three Compounds in Sweat
Diabetes Monitor
Cortisol, glucose and interleukin 6 are diabetes-related compounds found in a diabetic’s sweat. To measure those three levels, researchers [MORE]
Cell Census
T Cells
Big science projects like the Human Genome, the Human Proteome and the Human Brain Atlas, have certain technologies in [MORE]
Hand-Held DNA Sequencer Widely Adopted
MinION Sequencer
Oxford Nanopore Technologies (Oxford Science Park, UK) has had threats of patent infringement against its MinION, after which the [MORE]
Venom “Milking” Scorpion Robot
Scorpion
Milking scorpions for their venom may be one job lab technicians are happy to give up to robots. And such [MORE]
Ultrasound Triggered Chemotherapy
Nanoparticles Loaded with Chemotherapy
Quoting directly: “To improve the low efficacy and toxic side effects of chemotherapies that rely on this [MORE]
Pressure Sensors Made of “White Graphene”
Materials scientists at the Technical University of Delft and at Cambridge University have engineered a process to make microscopic pressure [MORE]
Automated High Throughput Screening
Drug Research
Modern drug discovery fundamentally depends on two processes: combinatorial chemistry and high throughput screening. Bruce Merrifield (1963) and Mario [MORE]
Artificial Blood Vessels for an Infected Tooth
Dr. Bertassoni Developed Artificial Blood Vessels to Regenerate Tooth After Root Canal
An abscessed tooth calls for a root canal procedure [MORE]
CRISPR-Cpf1 Gene Editing
CRISPR Cas Method
Gene editing technology known as CRISPR has only been known to science for four years, but its impact [MORE]
Seven Sensors for the Near Future of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Biosensor for Brain Injury
Wearable, implantable and ingestible biosensors are the devices that make precision medicine more precise. In [MORE]