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Smart Tissue-Sensing Needle
i2T2 Smart tissue sensing needle
If a poke in the eye makes you shudder, how about a needle in the eye? [MORE]
Skin Test for Prion Disease
Mad cow disease
The “Mad Cow Epidemic,” starting in 1986, and the first confirmed US death from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in 1988, [MORE]
Mobile Bioprinter for Treating Skin and Wound Problems
Close up of skin bioprinter
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine has been wowing us year after year with its progress [MORE]
Microfluidics Device takes Exomes from Blood
Pulling exosomes from blood to test for cancer
All cells produce and release exosomes, but tumors do more of both. And, [MORE]
Stem Cells to T-cells from Artificial Thymic Organoids
T helper cell
Growing tissue organoids seems to be the coming thing for drug testing, but additionally, researchers at UCLA have [MORE]
AI for Facial Syndromes
AI for facial syndromes
Artificial intelligence and machine learning usually begins with a “study set” of, say, protein markers or some [MORE]
Growing Mesenchymal Progenitors without Animal Derived Compounds
Mesenchymal progenitors
Human mesenchymal stem cells are rare and difficult to expand in culture, but they have the greatest capability of [MORE]
Listening to the Brain with a Graphene Sensor
Graphene-based transistor neural probe
“Graphene Flagship,” a consortium of 150 research groups, headquartered Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden), has developed [MORE]
Precision Prosthetics from 3D Printing
Creating anatomic models
3D scanning and 3D printing are waiting for one more development before moving into clinical grade custom implants [MORE]
3D Printed Sugar-Based Stent
Disovable stent to aid cardiovascular surgery
With an extruded sucrose material, engineers at the University of Nebraska have created a resorbable [MORE]
Sweat Patch Diagnostics
Sensor to measure chemical contents in sweat
Sweat is a diagnostic fluid, with varying levels of chloride, glucose, and lactate. To [MORE]
A Retrievable Sponge for Diagnosing Esophageal Cancer
Esophageal sponge collects genetic material for diagnosis
In order to retrieve biomarkers for cancer of the esophagus, a doctor at The [MORE]
Machine Learning in the ICU
Blood testing
You might say that a serious illness, as those that go to an ICU, is a kind of math [MORE]
Predictive Protein Profile of Alzheimer’s Disease
Protein changes in blood forecasts Alzheimers
This may be your father’s NFL or your mother’s, though in this case NfL refers [MORE]