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3-D Printed Hands for Children
3-D Hand
With the gift of a 3-D printer from his wife, a Johns Hopkins trauma surgeon made an artificial hand [MORE]
Wearable Artificial Kidney
Wearable Artificial Kidney
It make take a willing suspension of disbelief to see this wearable artificial kidney allowing dialysis patients to [MORE]
Regenerating Islet Cells
Orgenesis
This piece is light on the details, but the basic idea is to extract liver cells from a Type 1 [MORE]
Tiny Accelerometers
Accelerometers
Spanning less than one millimeter across, a new accelerometer from mCube (San Jose, CA) offers new potential to wearable monitors, [MORE]
Graphene Coated Rubber Bands as Wearable Heart Rate Sensors
Graphene Rubber Band Sensor Monitor
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Surry have embedded graphene into rubber bands [MORE]
Acoustic Cell Sorting
Cell Separation with Acoustic Waves
Cell sorting had long been an interest in livestock breeding and in 1981 researchers figured out [MORE]
Magnetically-Guided Imaging Agent
Silicon Mesoporous Particle
Nanoparticles containing iron oxide not only provide improved imaging, but also can be manipulated inside the body by [MORE]