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Growing Blood Vessels in a Week
Preparation of Blood Vessels in the Lab
This report from Sahlgrenska University in Gothenburg, Sweden is astonishing, but short on important [MORE]
Kidney Structures from 3-D Printing
3D Printed Capillaries
Printing organs does not appear to be on the near term horizon, but persistently 3-D printing is moving [MORE]
Blood Marker Test for Depression
RNA
Here’s a piece that well illustrates Leroy Hood’s “4 P’s” of personalized medicine (i.e. personalized, predictive, preventative, participatory). Investigators at [MORE]
DARPA’s Artificial Spleen
Prototype Artifical Spleen
While the military has a special need to control sepsis, civilian mortality in the US reaches 170,000 annually, [MORE]
Osteoarthritis Evaluation by Sound Waves
Sound Wave Detection of Osteoarthritis
Researchers at Lancaster University (UK) have developed a diagnostic device that assesses arthritic knees based on [MORE]
Implantable/Dissolvable Sensors
Dissolvable Electronic Devices
This says it all: “Electronic devices that dissolve completely in water, leaving behind only harmless end products, are [MORE]
Make Your Own Micropump
Pulsing Fluidic Micropump
Where necessity is the mother of either invention or “make do,” this little piece of advice with materials [MORE]