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Monitoring Macular Degeneration with a Contact Lens
Detect Ultrasound with Light
Optical ultrasound detection is a new aspect of photoacoustic imaging, and comes from engineers at Northwestern University. [MORE]
Lab-on-a-Chip Diagnostic Chip Can Screen Several Diseases and Cost Less Than a Penny
Lab-on-a-Chip for a Penny
Once in a while, something that’s too good to be true might actually be so, as an [MORE]
Shooting in Stem Cells with a “Skin Gun”
RenovaCare Skin Gun
Remember Cornell University’s “gene gun” in 1987 that used an air pistol to shoot metal particles coated with [MORE]
Precision Eye Surgery Robot
Robot for Eye Surgery
Last January 12th, surgeons at University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium used a robot to insert a microneedle [MORE]
Engineered Thyroid Cells
Thyroid Gland Cells
Hypo or hyperthyroidism, goiter or cancer are among the thyroid conditions that afflict about 10% of the US [MORE]
Wearable Vest Locates Aberrant Heart Beats
Medtronic CardioInsight Vest
Heart patients with transient arrhythmias present a problem for diagnosis: if they do not have an arrhythmia when [MORE]
Building Better Lab Rats
Wistar Rat
Rats do more work in medical research than mice, but mice get all the glamour. (50% more scientific publications [MORE]