Magnetic Nanoparticles to Staunch Internal Bleeding
Vessel Damage Model
Chemical engineers at ITMO University (St. Petersburg, Russia) have developed intravenously injected nanoparticles that can be moved to [MORE]
Tissue Regeneration with Vascularization
Meso Endothelial Stem Cells
This piece, based on research at the University of Queensland, doesn’t directly address the prospects for growing [MORE]
Intestine-on-a-Chip
Organs-on-Chips
Microengineers at Cedars Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute (Los Angeles, CA) have created an “intestine-on-a-chip” that simulates a [MORE]
Regenerating Livers in Organoid Size
View of a Human Liver Dorsally with Gallbladder
Wake Forest University’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine has created liver organoids that mimic [MORE]
A Pacemaker for the Lungs
Respiratory Pacemaker
Respicardia (Minnetonka, MN) has now implanted a breathing “pacemaker” in its first clinically approved patient. The device stimulates the [MORE]
Consumer Genetics Takes Off
DNA Testing
Surprisingly, the “take off” in genetic testing hasn’t come from disease-related interest, but rather from genealogy. Ten consumer genetics [MORE]
Regenerative Medicine for Baldness
Hair Follicle Germs
Yokohama National University scientists have shown how it is possible to mass produce “hair follicle germs” for implantation. [MORE]
Death by Salt
Mazza Salt Beds Sicily
Heart attack, stroke and kidney failure collectively make up the greatest cause of human deaths. Hypertension is a [MORE]
A Wearable to Detect Pneumonia
Smart Jacket Detects Pneumonia in Children
This piece is about a wearable stethoscope, in the form of a sensored jacket that [MORE]
Lower Cost Stem Cell Culturing
Koyoto AKIT Culture
A research collaboration headed at Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell Material Science has developed a stem cell [MORE]
Predictive Pediatric Screening for Childhood Diseases
DNA Testing for Childhood Diseases
Sema4 (Stamford, CT; a startup from NYC’s Mount Sinai Health System, is now marketing a home [MORE]
4-D Printing
4D Printing Low Temperature
Temperature is the fourth dimension in this piece. Rutgers University engineers “used a lithography-based technique that’s fast, [MORE]
Securing Implants Inside the Body with “Artificial Scales”
Artificial Scales to Secure Implants
Stents in the heart save lives, but they can move and cause problems. Keeping any implant [MORE]
Measuring Heartbeat and Blood Flow with a Camera
Professor Gunther and Ruben Invent Camera for Heart Rate Estimation
Noting that hemoglobin absorbs green light, researchers at Utah State University [MORE]
Insulin Patch Pump for Artificial Pancreas
CamMed CoFounders With Evopump
There’s not enough technical detail in this piece to explain how the “Evopump” bandage works, but it [MORE]
Death by Salt
Mazza Salt Beds Sicily
Heart attack, stroke and kidney failure collectively make up the greatest cause of human deaths. Hypertension is [MORE]
Perspective on Biosensors
Latest Generation of Sweat Sensor Novel Devices Lab
“The skin can provide misleading data to biosensors since it harbors bacteria and [MORE]
Pancreatic Stem Cells to Regenerate Insulin Function
Pancreatic Progenitor Cells in Pancreatic Duct
Researchers at the University of Miami’s Diabetes Research Institute have confirmed the location of pancreatic [MORE]
Self-Healing Electronic Skin
Electronic Skin
The chief aim with malleable, self-healing, recyclable electronic skin is to improve prosthetics (e.g. better surface control of microbes) [MORE]
Dissolvable Sensors Inside the Body
Fiber Bragg Grating
William Henry Bragg (the father) and William Lawrence Bragg (the son) uniquely shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in [MORE]
“Regulator of Cartilage Growth and Differentiation”
Arthritic Knee
Thinking there might be an injectable therapy instead of joint replacement in some cases of arthritis, researchers at the [MORE]
Concussion Diagnosis: MicroRNAs in Saliva
Concussion
“Researchers [at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital] identified five microRNA molecules which “accurately identify” patients with concussion symptoms. Three of [MORE]
Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectroscopy
Mass Spectrometer
The technology discussed in this piece—capillary electrophoresis-mass spectroscopy—isn’t new. Richard Smith, renowned chemist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory [MORE]
Biomarker Preservation at Room Temperature
Transport of Specimens without Refrigeration
Quoting directly: “Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a method to preserve protein [MORE]
First in vitro Kidney Tissue
Kidney Glomeruli
In a first for regenerative medicine, bioengineers at the University of Manchester have grown functional human kidney tissue organelles [MORE]