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Printing Transplantable Lungs
3D printed airway
This piece is about a work in progress, with likely a long way to go. United Therapeutics (Manchester, [MORE]
Synthetic Biology-Based Implantable Optical Biosensor
Improving biosensors for implantable sensing
Optical biosensors can be implantable devices that detect a wide range of substances from biomarkers to [MORE]
Harvard’s Lab-Grown Beating Left Ventricle
Harvard has grown beating heart
Using a scaffold of biodegradable polyester and gelatin, which then was spun into a cone shape, [MORE]
Implantable Heart Monitor with Smartphone App
Implantable heart monitor
Last year, when Abbott Laboratories acquired St. Jude Medical it picked up an implantable heart monitor which already [MORE]
Preserving Blood to Isolate CTCs
Liquid biopsy
Several advanced diagnostics for circulating tumor cells exist—such as single cell qPCR, digital PCR and RNA sequencing—but limiting their [MORE]
AI Turned to Cancer Detection in Liquid Biopsy
Circulating Tumor DNA
With tumor biopsies, pathologists have a significant amount of tissue to examine, and with DNA sequencing they can [MORE]
Intestinal Organoids for Transplantation in Mice
Human intestinal organoids
Several laboratories have been able to grow up functional human “organoids” (of a few hundred cells), but discovered [MORE]
Growing Up Kidney Podocytes
Mature kidney podocyte
Winston Churchill’s comment that Russia is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” might equally apply [MORE]
Simultaneous Label-Free Autofluorescence Multi-Harmonic Microscopy (aka SLAM)
SLAM-Microscopy
University of Illinois scientists have developed this microscopy system which uses precise light pulses to simultaneously produce images from multiple [MORE]
Drinkable Electronic Sensors
Drinkable electronic sensors
Swiss scientists have designed microsensors that are tiny enough to pass into the blood stream and congregate at [MORE]
An Inexpensive Trap for Diagnosing Prostate Cancer
PC3 prostate cancer cell
Chinese engineers have used a common frosted glass microscope slide as the basis for an inexpensive diagnostic [MORE]
Hand-Held Robotic Drill for Most Delicate Surgery
Cochlea surgical drill
Though the Brunels became the first family of British civil engineers by drilling the River Thames Tunnel in [MORE]
Cell Free RNA Blood Test for Premature Birth
Infant blood test
Building on research in Denmark, Stanford University biologists identified cell free RNA in mothers’ blood that can indicate [MORE]
Synthetic T Cells
T Cells
According to this piece, researchers at UCLA’s dental school were able to create soft, flexible microparticles that mimic functional [MORE]