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Organ Printing with Better Bio-Ink
UBC Okanagan’s Keekyoung Kim Researches Bio Ink
Bioprinters require an “ink” that produces uniform droplets. In most instances today that ink [MORE]
Gene Therapy Nanoparticles that Enhance CAR-T Therapy
CAR-Engineered T-Cell
Some of the excitement over chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy for cancer has diminished following the first patient [MORE]
RNA Sequencing with a Microfluidics Device
Single Cell RNA Sequencing
In order to map a brain, investigators have to show different cells types, and differences in each [MORE]
Engineering a Breathing Lung
Bioengineering Using Functional Vascularized Lung Scaffold
Columbia University bioengineers have created the first functional lung (rodent) with perfusable and healthy vasculature. [MORE]
A Bathroom Scale with a College Education
PhysioSensing Pad
Mark Twain said cauliflower was just broccoli with a college education. Something like that might be said of this [MORE]
Preventing Blood Culture Contamination
SteriPath-Gen2
Even with wiping the skin with an alcohol swab before taking a blood draw, skin bacteria can contaminate the sample [MORE]
A Cancer-Sniffing Pen
MasSpec Pen for Cancer Diagnosis
Using a pen-like device, engineers at the University of Texas at Austin were able to apply [MORE]
MRI Mapping of Carotid Artery Plaque to Predict Stroke
MRI Based on T2 Mapping
An MRI scan can determine the size of a plaque in the carotid arteries, but cannot [MORE]
Tracking “Smart Pills”
Illustration of ATOMS
Remember the “submarine” that travels through the blood stream in the 1966 movie, Fantastic Voyage? That fantasy actually [MORE]
Robotic Process Automation in Drug Development
Robotics Process Automation
Health care may not be as complex as is commonly believed, but it does involve a large number [MORE]
A 3-D Printed Microfluidics Device
3-D Printed Microfluidic Device
In a process named “digital light processing stereolithography (DLP-SLA),” engineers at Brigham Young University have created the [MORE]
An Injectable Tissue Patch
Injectable Tissue Scaffold
Rather than repair heart damage using open chest surgery, engineers at the University of Toronto have created an [MORE]
SPED: Self-Powered Electrochemical Device, POC Diagnostic
SPED POC Diagnostic Device
A paper-based diagnostic device that detects biomarkers and identifies infectious diseases by electrochemical analysis with reporting by [MORE]
A New Kind of “Tissue Paper”
Tissue Paper Made From Organs
In a multistep process (see the video), biochemists at Northwestern University have taken animal tissues, minced [MORE]