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Personalized Knee Replacement
Personalised high tibial osteotomy
“The aim of this study was to investigate the safety of the new personalised treatment [for tibial [MORE]
Gene Editing for Cystic Fibrosis
Evaluating CRISPR-based prime editing for cancer modeling
“Prime editing is a recently reported genome editing tool using a nickase-cas9 fused to [MORE]
Glycopolymer Coating to Prevent Organ Rejection
Drs. Siren and Kizhakkedathu in the lab at UBC’s Centre for Blood Research
From the University of British Columbia: “Researchers have [MORE]
Bladder on a Chip and Bladder Organoids
Bladder-on-a-chip and organoids reveal dynamics or UTIs
“Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland developed two complementary benchtop [MORE]
Cultured Tissue: Mimicking a Beating Heart
Heart Model Simulates Mechanical Load on Cardiac Tissues
“Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, along with collaborators in the Netherlands, have developed [MORE]
First in vivo Use of CRISPR-Cas9 in a Human
CRISPR-Cas9 In Vivo Gene Editing for Transthyretin Amyloidosis
“Transthyretin amyloidosis . . . is a life-threatening disease characterized by progressive accumulation [MORE]
Electric Patch Hastens Bone Healing
Self-powered biodegradable patch zaps broken bones to heal them
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed an electrical patch called a fracture [MORE]
Roboworm
Light-responsive nematode worms
As this piece admits, “biomedical applications may be too far away to envision” (though perhaps not for MAIN’s [MORE]
A COVID-19 and Variants Environmental Biosensor
Soterius Scout sensor detects even asymptomatic COVID-19
“Reliable, accurate and non-invasive, the Soterius Scout sensor can deliver results within a minute [MORE]
Lab Space Architecture and Design
Research facility design
Many if not most of MAIN’s readers work in scientific laboratories, where researchers likely had little input into [MORE]
Visualizing Metabolism
Metabolic Processes Visualized at the Single-Cell Level
“Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Biological Sciences [MORE]
A Dissolvable Pacemaker
Transient pacemaker dissolves in the body after use
“In a breakthrough that could greatly ease the burden for patients recovering from [MORE]
Spray-On Hydrogel to Protect Organs after Surgery
Spray-On Hydrogel to Prevent Post-Surgery Adhesions
“Researchers at University of California San Diego have developed a spray-on hydrogel that forms a [MORE]
Human Hearing the Ultrasonic
Superhuman spatial hearing technology for ultrasonic frequencies
From acoustic engineers at Aalto University (Espoo, Finland): “we describe a method whereby an [MORE]