3-D Printing During Surgery, the BioPen
“[A] new BioPen developed at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia . . . . is designed to let [MORE]
World’s Smallest Pacemaker
Cardiac surgeons at Southampton General Hospital (UK) used a catheter to thread a pill-sized pacemaker through the femoral vein from [MORE]
Brain Stimulators for Military Use
Brain-implanted devices are gaining traction in part because so many soldiers in recent wars have sustained limb loss or PTSD, [MORE]
Multi-Test Lab-on-a-Chip
This piece announces computer aided design software, developed at Michigan Technological University, which is a necessary step before microfluidic diagnostic [MORE]
Stroke Map for Telemedicine
Health demographers at the University of Pennsylvania have mapped out the geography of annual stroke incidence (800,000) and mortality (130,000) [MORE]
3-D Printing Models Chest Cavity for Unusual Lung Transplant
In an astonishingly complicated procedure, surgeons at Kyoto University Hospital used a 3-D printer to model the chest cavity [MORE]
Comparing Robots
Before you conclude that humanoid robots are a passing fancy (much like railroad executives thought of the automobile in the [MORE]
Bridging Neurodegeneration
Within neurons, a protein “bridge” exists that connects the energy producing mitochondria and the calcium storing (for signaling) endoplasmic reticulum; [MORE]
Nerves of Steel (almost)
Liquid metal is an alloy of gallium, indium and selenium which takes a fluid phase at body temperature while maintaining [MORE]
Cochlear Implants Enable Gene Therapy for Auditory Nerves
Electroporation is one method of gene transfer, but it is limited by the number of cells it can access and [MORE]
Perspective on Wearable Sensors
In some ways, the market for wearable biosensors resembles the “dot com” bubble—a tremendous expansion of unproven products and investment [MORE]
Mapping the Metabolome
Wellcome Trust’s Sanger Institute at Cambridge University, has released an open access map connecting 145 genetic regions (and their variations) [MORE]
Keeping Stem Cells in Place
Encasing stem cells in hydrogel before injecting them at a site of bone repair keeps the cells in place (in [MORE]
Diffuse Optical Tomography
“Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a new brain scanning technology developed by a team at the Washington University School [MORE]
Disposable Spray on Patch
Bioengineers at the University of Maryland have used a commercially available airbrush to spray on a polymer patch that could [MORE]
Ultra-Low Powered Wireless Sensor
A crucial limitation on the thousands of devices conceived to make up the “internet of things” is their power requirements. [MORE]
Siemen’s Museum of Medical Technology
A few weeks ago, technology giant Siemen’s opened its medical museum in Erlangen, Germany, featuring innovations in imaging, diagnostics and [MORE]
Microchip Bioreactor for Synthesizing Blood Platelets
While research into artificial blood continues, a Boston company, Platelet BioGenesis, is developing a microfluidics bioreactor that can stimulate stem [MORE]
Powering Deep Tissue Microimplants
While this piece is only a link to a PNAS article, it reports an important development in pacemaker design from [MORE]
Nanoparticles in Tissue Adhesion for Organ Repair
By applying silica and iron oxide nanoparticles to tissue for surgical closure, researchers in Paris have developed a new kind [MORE]
Levitated Lab-Grown Cartilage
Ultrasonic tweezers July 8 2014“Beam me up, Scotty” may be a little closer to non-fiction based on traction beam and [MORE]
Printed Skull Implanted
“In a worldwide first, brain surgeon Dr. Bon Verweij of the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht successfully replaced the complete [MORE]
Tissue Cultured Vagina Implanted
“Scientists reported the first human recipients of laboratory-grown vaginal organs. They have described long-term success in four teenage girls who [MORE]
Panasonic’s Robotic Bed/Wheelchair
Pansonic’s “Resyone” robot features a wheelchair with a full body length cushion that also is half a bed mattress. A [MORE]
Finger Sensor for Parkinson’s Monitoring
This piece describes a home monitoring system for Parkinson’s patients: “The sensor captures linear acceleration and angular velocities, and clinically [MORE]