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Mouse Thyroid Bioprinted in Space
3D Bioprinting organs in space
Last month, the Russian news agency reported that astronauts aboard the International Space Station used the [MORE]
Making Nanoparticles Stick in the Liver
Nanoparticles with hairy polymer shells
Various kinds of nanoparticles are possible drug delivery vehicles in the body. This report tells of [MORE]
Optical “Waveguides” in Medical Devices
3D Waveguide fabrication
This from EPFL engineers in Lausanne, Switzerland: “For the first time, researchers have fabricated light-guiding structures known as [MORE]
Post-Surgical Gel Prevents Tumor Recurrence
Post-surgery healing gel
A collaboration between researchers at UCLA, UNC and two Chinese universities has “developed an in situ formed immunotherapeutic [MORE]
Automated Heart Screening
Eko-Mayo Clinic Smart stethoscope
A stethoscope, hung casually around a physician’s neck, is as evocative of the profession as a white [MORE]
Precision Diagnostics at Home for Autoimmune Diseases
New DxCollect collector for home use
DxTerity (Rancho Dominguez, CA) has introduced an autoimmune profile test for diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, [MORE]
The Scientist’s Top 10 Innovations of 2018
Fluidity One fluidic analytics
Here are ten notable technologies from “Cyto-Mine” that automatically performs all the steps in antibody discovery, to [MORE]
Platelets Grown from Adipose Stem Cells
Platelets grown from stem cells
Human donors supply some 4.5 million platelet units worldwide each year. Shortages exist because donated platelets [MORE]
CRISPR + AI
CRISPR-Cas9 Editing of the Genome
CRISPR-Cas9, as its name indicates, is a two-part technology. CRISPR locates a target sequence, and Cas [MORE]
Digital Health Devices in Clinical Trials
Digital devices and clinical trials J
Five issues confront digital devices moving into clinical practice: usability, accuracy, safety, convenience, ease of [MORE]
Microneedle Patch Repairs Heart Damage
Microneedle patch for heart repair
Chinese and American engineers have designed a “patch” which is applied to a damaged area on [MORE]
Another Stab at a Glucose Monitoring Watch
K Watch for glucose monitoring
“PKvitality, a company based outside of Paris, France, has announced that it’s getting ever closer to [MORE]
Pioneering Study of AI in Heart Medicine
Echocardiogram using BayLabs’ EchoGPS system
Bay Labs (San Francisco) and Northwestern Medicine (Chicago) are clinically testing Bay Labs’ EchoGPS program for [MORE]
Engineering New Wrists
Prosthetic wrist
Biomedical engineers at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden) have built an artificial wrist prosthetic. “The new artificial joint [MORE]