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Blood Biomarkers for Pain
Pain assessment
“Please tell me, on this chart, your pain level from 1 to 10 cartoon faces.” Hippocrates could have done [MORE]
Robotic Contact Lens
Contact lens
Muscles that control eye movement have an electrical output—or more precisely, an electro-oculographic signal. With that in mind, engineers [MORE]
Keeping Tissue Alive in the Lab
Heart slices in biomimetic culture system
Researchers at the University of Louisville have developed a culture system that can keep slices [MORE]
Osmotic Pill Samples the Microbiome
Capsule assesses microbiome
Increasingly, the role of the microbiome is found to be implicated in many biological processes outside of the [MORE]
Algorithm for Diagnosing Lung Biopsies
Chest-CT-Segmentation
An Israeli company, RSIP Vision (Jerusalem), uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to examine CT images (et al) looking for [MORE]
Social Determinants of Health
Social support promotes health
Epidemiologists struggle to measure the “social determinants of health,” but the simple truth is that American society [MORE]
e-Tattoo Heart Monitor
eTattoo heart monitor
Heart beat monitors have come to this: an electronic, stick on, “tattoo.” Engineers at the University of Texas-Austin [MORE]
Wearable Vocal Cords
Wearable artificial graphene throat WAGT
The publication title alone is an eye-catcher: “A Wearable Skinlike Ultra-Sensitive Artificial Graphene Throat.” Engineers at [MORE]
Urine Test for Bladder Cancer
Continuous culture
From a collaboration between cancer researchers at Georgetown University and Fudan University, this piece explains how a “conditional reprogramming” [MORE]
Key Cell to Liver Regeneration
Liver regeneration
Researchers at King’s College London report: “. . . the existence of a hepatobiliary hybrid progenitor (HHyP) population in [MORE]
CRISPR on a Chip
Digital DNA detection
First, affix a piece of graphene to a pyrene substrate. Then, load Cas9 and guide RNA molecules onto [MORE]
A “KneeKG”
Patient with KneeKG
In imaging a knee problem, the patient having an x-ray or MRI is lying down. The resulting picture [MORE]
Implantable Scaffold for Meniscus Repair
Scaffold for meniscus repair
As the adult population ages, injuries to their knee joints—particularly torn menisci that were not repaired or [MORE]
Artificial Proteins for “Smart” Cells
LOCKR responds to changes in cellular environment
Describing their engineered protein as “a latch, a cage, a key, and a bioactive [MORE]