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Prototype for 3-D Printed Bionic Eye
Prototype for bionic eye
Following past success with bionic skin and a bionic ear, engineers at the University of Minnesota have [MORE]
Bioengineered Lungs Transplanted into Pigs
UTMB researchers transplant bioengineered lung
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston) have shown that they could, in pigs, [MORE]
MIT’s Physiome-on-a-Chip
MIT Physiome-on-a-Chip
The human body has nearly 80 organs (depending on their definitions). Knowing how a drug interacts with these different [MORE]
New Materials for 3-D Printing; Medical
TLIF spine spacer
FibreTuff (Toledo, OH) compounds cellulose with two thermoplastics and processes them into a powder for 3-D printing. With [MORE]
Prospects for CRISPR in the Clinic
Ex vivo CRISPR infographic
It is now more than a quarter century since the first authorized gene therapy clinical trial took [MORE]
T-Cell Engineering via Non-Viral Gene Editing
Genetically reprogrammed human T cells
Viral vectors have been the workhorses of gene transfer since the 1980s, but they always have [MORE]
Dental Value of Hydrogel that Stimulates Angiogenesis/Dentinogenesis
Root canal hydrogel
Root canal treatment kills a tooth. But researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have demonstrated how [MORE]
Injectable Stem Cells for Muscle Repair
Stem cell loaded hydrogel
Though the term “hydrogel” originated in the late 19th century, its modern definition as a hydrophilic crosslinked [MORE]
Picturing Blood Pressure
Measuring BP through face scan on smartphone
A research collaboration between GE Global Research, Michigan State University and the University of [MORE]
NIH Training Set of 32,000 CT Images
NIH medical imaging dataset
NIH’s Clinical Center has released 32,000 annotated lesions from CT images, coming from more than 4,400 patients. [MORE]
New process for Growing Blood Vessels
Texas A&M new platform for forming blood vessels
Texas A&M University engineers have developed a clay-based method for slowly delivering angiogenesis [MORE]
Protein-Centered Diagnostics
Flowchart of proteomics
This piece has a half-truth—i.e. that the diseases of aging, like Alzheimer’s and T2 diabetes, arise from aberrant [MORE]
Bioengineered Bone Grafts
Bioengineered bone grafts
At the New York Stem Cell Foundation, researchers use an innovative process to produce bone grafts in small [MORE]
Removing A and B Antigens for O Type Blood
Gut bacteria may have key to creating universal blood
It has long been known that A type blood cells have one [MORE]