POSTS TAGGED AS biomedicine

Keeping Stem Cells in Place for Heart Damage Repair

Using Magnets to Heal Myocardial Cells
The previous piece is about protecting stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes so they survive when transplanted. This [MORE]

Disruptive Innovation in Dentistry

Dental Material Kills Microbes – Right Image
Keeping check on caries and chipping away bacterial plaque is why most people go [MORE]

Rejuvenating Old Cells

Food with Reversatol
While it is generally known that the human genome of some 20,000 genes expressing some two million proteins [MORE]

Bacterial RNA-Detecting Enzyme for Liquid Biopsies

Molecular Structure of GsI-IIC RT
Improving the accuracy of liquid biopsy has enormous potential for making cancers more manageable. And to [MORE]

3-D Printed Micro Hearing Device

Ossicular Conductive Hearing Loss Prostheses On Coin
Ossicular conductive hearing loss comes from damage to the three bones in the inner [MORE]

3-D Printing with Bacterial Ink

3D Printing of Bacteria
Materials engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have developed means for immobilizing bacteria [MORE]

Metabolic Engineering

Huimin Zhao Developed Efficient Metabolic Engineering Process
CRISPR gene editing usually targets one DNA sequence at a time, but now researchers [MORE]

“Kevlartilage” Artificial Cartilage

Kevlartilage – Artificial Cartilage
Natural cartilage has amazing properties: under stress, as in running, knee cartilage releases water to become more [MORE]

Microfluidics for Cell Culture

Microfluidic Applications Labs-on-Chips
Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices are an evolving technology, often with divergence between performance and possibilities. This piece offers a [MORE]

Synthetic Beta Cells in a Patch Treatment for Diabetes

Artificial Beta Cells
Biomedical engineers in North Carolina (UNC–NCSU) have developed artificial pancreatic beta cells that automatically secrete insulin as needed.   [MORE]

A Robot Just Passed the Medical Licensing Exam

Artificial Intelligence Robot
Let’s start off the year with a bang. Engineers in Hefei City, China-based Iflyteck have built an artificial intelligence [MORE]

Automated Stem Cell Prep

3D Cell Models Form in Hanging Droplets
This piece has an old idea in a new “package.” The old idea is [MORE]

A Smart Watch for Monitoring Blood Pressure

Apple Smart Watch
We have seen “smart” watches before which claim a capability of monitoring blood pressure. Most have gone nowhere, [MORE]

Non-Viral Vectors for CRISPR Delivery

MIT CRISPR Gene Editing Tool Without Viruses
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing has mostly depended on viral vectors to deliver the cutting enzyme [MORE]