POSTS TAGGED AS biomedicine

Photonic Biosensor Monitors Oxygen in Organs-on-a-Chip

Biosensor
What tissues of the body do depends on the level of oxygen concentration, and different tissues have various oxygen levels.  [MORE]

An Eye Scan for Early Parkinson’s Diagnosis

 
Braak staging . Parkinson’s Disease
Through imaging studies of 49 Parkinson’s patients and 54 age-matched controls, researchers in Seoul found that [MORE]

Smart Tooth Technology

WashU Engineering Electronic Tooth Sensor
An engineering group at The Washington University of St. Louis has developed a prototype of a [MORE]

Artificial Mole as Early Cancer Detector

Artificial Mole to Detect Cancer
In animal studies, bioengineers at ETH Zurich (the Swiss Technical Institute in Zurich) have designed an [MORE]

Monitoring Low White Blood Cell Levels

Monitoring WBCs in Capillary
Anti-cancer chemotherapy knocks down the patient’s white blood cells, making them more vulnerable to infections. Thus, monitoring [MORE]

Injectable Bandages

 
Injectable Bandage
Texas A & M University reports: “Kappa-carrageenan, commonly extracted from red edible seaweed, has been utilized for decades as [MORE]

Lab Automation for Urine Analysis

Laboratory Automaton
“TLA (Total Laboratory Automation) has vastly changed the workflow for urine cultures. As an example, plates no longer sit [MORE]

Wearable Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

Wearable Brain Scanner New MEG Helmet
Magnetoencephalography is a technology that measures electrical transmission within the brain based on tiny (i.e. [MORE]

A “Culture Mold” for Growing Heart Cells

Lab Made Cardiomyocytes
Inducing early stem cells to become a specific tissue cell type is no easy business, but a research [MORE]

A Tooth Sensor Measures Sugar, Salt and Alcohol Intake

Tooth Sensor
“Researchers at Tufts University have developed an amazing new sensor, only 2 millimeters on a side, that can be [MORE]

A Highly Accurate Stroke Detector

Cerebrotech Visor
Even within the so-called “golden hour,” stroke detection currently gets low marks. But a California company claims to have [MORE]

“MELISA,” Cell-Phone Based Immuosorbent Assay

MELISA test
The Mobile Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (MELISA) is a means that “accurately measures progesterone levels, a key hormone that [MORE]

Memory Enhancing Brain Prosthetic

Memory Stimulation Brain Implant
At Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center epilepsy treatments include implanting electrodes in the brain which can stimulate [MORE]

Lab-on-a-Fiber Technology

Lab On Fiber Analyst Royal Society of Chemistry
First it was lab-on-a-chip, and then lab-on-skin. Now Scottish researchers report on an [MORE]