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Spray Drying for Personalized Drugs
Medications
This piece describes work at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stutgart, Germany, where chemical engineers have developed an improved method of [MORE]
Microneedle Patch for Drawing Interstitial Fluid
Microneedle Patch
Average size adults carry about two and a half gallons of interstitial fluid which bathes every cell in the [MORE]
“Labyrinth” Chip Sorts Circulating Tumor Cells
Labyrinth Chip
Quoting directly from the University of Michigan researchers: “We present “Labyrinth,” a label-free microfluidic device to isolate circulating tumor [MORE]
Electro-Spinning Collagen for Organ Scaffolds
Biological Scaffolds
The process known as electrospinning, whereby a high voltage drives a liquid polymer through a small orifice causing it [MORE]
The Role of Retail Clinics
Retail Health Clinics
Retail clinics represent a kind of medical populism challenging the healthcare establishment. Typically retail clinics, located in grocery [MORE]
A Wearable Language Translator
Fujitsu Speech Translator
Fujitsu Laboratories announces that it has produced the “world’s first, wearable, hands free, speech translation device,” in the [MORE]
Smart Prosthetics
Smart Prosthetics (MOIP)
To address the needs of military amputees, the Naval Research Lab and collaborators have created a smart artificial [MORE]