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Teaching Anatomy with Augmented Reality
Microsoft Hololens
When Case Western Reserve University opens its new medical education campus in 2018, med students won’t have a cadaver [MORE]
Detecting Infections in Prostheses
Hip Prosthesis
Last summer, D. A. Henderson, who led WHO’s Smallpox Eradication Campaign, died from a MRSA infection following a prosthetic [MORE]
Biomaterials: Liquid Silk
Pure Liquid Silk – Fibroin
Silk Therapeutics Inc. (Medford, M.A.) is a skin care company at present, using pure fibroin (silk [MORE]
Soft Tissue Membrane from Umbilical Cord for Modulating Inflammation during Surgery
Avive Soft Tissue Membrane
In some cases of nerve grafting, surgeons use a conduit to hold severed endings in place, and [MORE]
Lab Grown Cartilage from Stem Cells for Hip Prosthetics
Joint pain, especially from arthritis, seems to be part of the fate of aging. Artificial prosthetics offer some relief, but [MORE]
Home Vital Signs Monitoring Device
OslerMD Vital Signs
OslerMD (San Diego, CA) is moving toward commercial release of its Rapid Vital Sign Measuring Device, which uses [MORE]
“Fingerprinting” the Brain
Carnegie Mellon Hackathon
Quoting directly: “A research team led by Carnegie Mellon University used diffusion MRI to measure the local connectome [MORE]