POSTS TAGGED AS biomedicine

Mobile Health at Last Month’s CES

At CES 2012 in Las Vegas last month, mobile health was a prominent theme, with providers introducing wearable weight-loss [MORE]

The $1,000 Genome, Pretty Soon

Ion Torrent, a division of Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, CA) is now taking orders for it’s “Ion Proton” DNA [MORE]

Microrobots for Drug Delivery

Korean engineers are experimenting with microrobots that can move through blood vessels by means of magnetic fields.  Not only do [MORE]

“Microvascular Stamp” Bandage

In the mind’s eye, imagine a postage stamp with live cells arrayed upon its surface in a specific pattern.  [MORE]

Optoelectronic Blood Pressure Monitoring

This piece only peaks curiosity, but it tells of a British company, Tarilian Laser Technologies (Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, [MORE]

First Transfusion of Cultured Blood

Despite almost a quarter century of being able to isolate blood progenitor stem cells, it wasn’t until last summer [MORE]

Visualizing Cancer Cells in Vivo

Cancer gets its name from the crab because of its resemblance to a mass with many legs. Surgical resection [MORE]

Monitoring Tear Glucose

Not long after Banting and Macleod won a 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering insulin, scientists began investigating tears as [MORE]

Heart Parts from Stem Cells, Sooner Than You Think

Regenerative medicine took a leap when Doris Taylor, at the Univ. of Minnesota, grew a rat’s stem cells into [MORE]

Non-Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitor

The YouTube video at this site is a promotion of C8 MediSensors (San Jose, CA) continuous glucose monitor which [MORE]

Smart, Light-Sensing Polymer for Medical Devices

Researchers at the University of California-San Diego have developed what they call a “smart” polymer that can encapsulate medications [MORE]

Looking for Cancer with a Flashlight

It is a flashlight of sorts, but a more accurate description is an endoscope that emits short bursts of [MORE]

Ultrasound Activated Pacemaker

Startup company, EBR Systems (Sunnyvale, CA) is developing a new generation of pacemakers that rely on ultrasound signaling rather [MORE]

Washing Away Tooth Decay

The lion’s share of the $70b Americans spend on dental care goes to cavity prevention and repair, and for [MORE]

Chitosan Nanoparticles in Gene Therapy Delivery

This story is on the far side, but perhaps most interesting because of that.  Researchers at Sweden’s renowned Karolinska [MORE]

Hydrogel Scaffold for Burn Healing

Johns Hopkins University researchers intended to design a hydrogel loaded with stem cells to promote wound healing, but their [MORE]

Blood Biomarker for Parkinson’s

Alpha-synuclein is a protein in neural tissue of unknown function, except that its mutations or post translation modifications have [MORE]

Printing 3D Bones

If you have to see something to believe it, be sure to check out the video at this site.  [MORE]

Multiplexed Microneedle Biosensor Assay

Research collaborators in North Carolina, New Mexico and California have developed a microneedle biosensor that loads electrochemicals into multiple [MORE]

Breath Test for Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis typically is diagnosed by an expensive MRI scan or an invasive lumbar puncture.  This piece, however, reports [MORE]