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BioPen for Cartilage Regeneration
Bio-Pen for cartilage repair
Australian bioengineers have built a device called “the BioPen,” which extrudes a hydrogel material infused with fat-derived [MORE]
Intermountain’s Transformation Center: Printing Transplantable Organs?
Kem C Gardner Transformation Center
Intermountain Health (Salt Lake City) already has a good reputation for innovation, but taking that further, [MORE]
Speeding Up Stem Cell Growth
Speeding up stem cell growth
Before stem cell therapies can become more robust, cell culture has to be finely tuned so [MORE]
iPhone App Accurately Monitors Blood Pressure
Blood pressure app
Electrical engineers at Michigan State University reported in Nature that they have developed a cuffless and calibration-free blood [MORE]
Regenerative Medicine: Stem Cells from Baby Teeth
Regrowing dental tissue with stem cells from baby teeth
In another advance for stem cell therapy, dental scientists have extracted human [MORE]
An Aerosol Biopsy for Lung Disease
Aerosol biopsy
Deton (Pasadena, CA) currently manufactures a device that collects coughed-up lung bacteria and evaluates the sample in a point-of-care [MORE]
A Wearable Photostimulator for Regrowing Hair
Regrowing hair with photostimulator
Red light lasers simulate hair follicles to grow more hair, and there are various devices that can [MORE]
Quick and Cheap, Brain-in-a-Dish
UCSD Slice of human brain organoid
In addition to animal models and single cells, drug researchers have organoids derived from reprogrammed [MORE]
Revenge of the Germs
Staphylococcus_epidermidis
This month marks the centennial of The Great War’s ending. But it also recalls the “Great Influenza” when somewhere between [MORE]
Stem Cells into Functional Liver Tissue
Stem cell derived liver cells
Five years ago, researchers reported success in growing liver “buds” (organoids) from stem cells, and three [MORE]
Patient-Specific Heart Mapping Sensors
Mapping catheter for identifying source of AF
To treat atrial fibrillation, interventional cardiologists need to know where aberrant electrical signals are [MORE]
Regenerating the Body’s Blood Vessels and Ducts
3D printed blood vessels
Regenerating blood vessels from stem cells implanted on an artificial scaffold has been demonstrated, but this piece, [MORE]
Building a Synthetic Microbiome
Genetic signal transmission system
Quoting directly: “Researchers from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have created [MORE]
A Robot Crawling in the Stomach
Stomach robot
Using a silicone material embedded with magnetic particles, engineers at the City University of Hong Kong have built a [MORE]