Mouse Thyroid Bioprinted in Space
3D Bioprinting organs in space
Last month, the Russian news agency reported that astronauts aboard the International Space Station used the [MORE]
Making Nanoparticles Stick in the Liver
Nanoparticles with hairy polymer shells
Various kinds of nanoparticles are possible drug delivery vehicles in the body. This report tells of [MORE]
Optical “Waveguides” in Medical Devices
3D Waveguide fabrication
This from EPFL engineers in Lausanne, Switzerland: “For the first time, researchers have fabricated light-guiding structures known as [MORE]
Post-Surgical Gel Prevents Tumor Recurrence
Post-surgery healing gel
A collaboration between researchers at UCLA, UNC and two Chinese universities has “developed an in situ formed immunotherapeutic [MORE]
Automated Heart Screening
Eko-Mayo Clinic Smart stethoscope
A stethoscope, hung casually around a physician’s neck, is as evocative of the profession as a white [MORE]
Precision Diagnostics at Home for Autoimmune Diseases
New DxCollect collector for home use
DxTerity (Rancho Dominguez, CA) has introduced an autoimmune profile test for diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, [MORE]
The Scientist’s Top 10 Innovations of 2018
Fluidity One fluidic analytics
Here are ten notable technologies from “Cyto-Mine” that automatically performs all the steps in antibody discovery, to [MORE]
Platelets Grown from Adipose Stem Cells
Platelets grown from stem cells
Human donors supply some 4.5 million platelet units worldwide each year. Shortages exist because donated platelets [MORE]
CRISPR + AI
CRISPR-Cas9 Editing of the Genome
CRISPR-Cas9, as its name indicates, is a two-part technology. CRISPR locates a target sequence, and Cas [MORE]
Digital Health Devices in Clinical Trials
Digital devices and clinical trials J
Five issues confront digital devices moving into clinical practice: usability, accuracy, safety, convenience, ease of [MORE]
Microneedle Patch Repairs Heart Damage
Microneedle patch for heart repair
Chinese and American engineers have designed a “patch” which is applied to a damaged area on [MORE]
Another Stab at a Glucose Monitoring Watch
K Watch for glucose monitoring
“PKvitality, a company based outside of Paris, France, has announced that it’s getting ever closer to [MORE]
Pioneering Study of AI in Heart Medicine
Echocardiogram using BayLabs’ EchoGPS system
Bay Labs (San Francisco) and Northwestern Medicine (Chicago) are clinically testing Bay Labs’ EchoGPS program for [MORE]
Engineering New Wrists
Prosthetic wrist
Biomedical engineers at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden) have built an artificial wrist prosthetic. “The new artificial joint [MORE]
“Cellular Dust” (extracellular vesicles) in Regenerative Medicine
Extracellular vesicles
While stem cell culture and transplantation has growing currency in regenerative medicine, French researchers have proposed that extracellular vesicles [MORE]
3D printing of Blood Vessels with the Right Flexibility
3D printed blood vessels
University of Colorado at Boulder engineers have found a way to print blood vessels that mimic natural [MORE]
Implantable Device for Breast Cancer Immunotherapy
Nanodevice for drug delivery directly to tumor
“To fulfill the unmet clinical need for sustained local drug delivery and to avoid [MORE]
Paper Wrist Patch Monitors Biometrics
Wearable electronic skin device
If you have access to ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10 (37), pp 31061–31068, you can read [MORE]
Gene Catalog of Cancer
DNA
How many genes can cause cancer? Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in England believe the number is more than [MORE]
Minimally Invasive Brain Monitor
RheoSense Non-invsive brain oxygen monitor
Luciole Medical (Zurich, Switzerland) takes its name from the French word for the light-emitting firefly. Their [MORE]
Monitoring Glucose in Saliva
Saliva for glucose monitoring
As far as your editor can tell, this video (first link) and the published article (second link) [MORE]
Multigene Test for High Risk Heart Disease, et al
DNA Multigenic risk score
Polygenic risk scores may become as routine as cholesterol screening. To that end, researchers at the Broad [MORE]
Future of Robotic Surgery
Da Vinci Xi Intuitive Surgical
In the two decades since Intuitive Surgical (Sunnyvale, CA) introduced its “daVinci” robot, the company has [MORE]
Wirelessly Controlled “pill”
MIT Wireless pill
For the past two years, researchers at MIT have been improving the design and capabilities of an ingestible [MORE]
Why Clinical Genetics Lags
Much of the Genome has not been studied
It’s true in most fields that new research largely reinforces prior discoveries. That’s [MORE]