POSTS TAGGED AS biomedicine

Machine Reading of X-Ray Images

Algorithm Diagnoses Pneumonia Better Than Radiologists
The glucometer is one example of how a disruptive innovation can change medical practice, and [MORE]

Wyss’ Organ-on-a-Chip for Modeling Influenza

Organ-on-a-Chip
It has been 99 years since the great influenza pandemic that killed many more people than had died in World [MORE]

Polymeric Antibodies for Molecular Diagnostics

Quoting directly about this work at the University of Leicester: “ In a newly released article “A comparison of the [MORE]

The Youngest Stem Cells

Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Pluripotent embryonic stem cells are derived from blastocysts of about 100 cells, which means those stem cells [MORE]

Smart Hydrogel

Nitric Oxide Ge
Quoting directly: “At the Institute for Basic Science in Daejeon, South Korea, scientists have developed a hydrogel that [MORE]

Artificial Intelligence for Wellness

Human Microbiome
The interaction of some three billion bacterial genes and twenty thousand human genes in the human microbiome is the [MORE]

Hacking Sequencers with Malware of Synthetic DNA; Scary

Illumina Genome Analyzer II Sequencing Machine
Today’s science-fiction can become tomorrow’s breakthroughs or its nightmares. The piece describes such a bad [MORE]

Perspective on DNA Sequencing

DNA 3D Model
Keep in mind that the Human Genome Project completed its “rough draft” only a dozen years ago; since [MORE]

A Genetically Modified Skin Patch that Monitors Glucose Levels

Skin Patch that Monitors Glucose
In laboratory mice, University of Chicago bioengineers were able to use CRISPR gene editing to modify [MORE]

Cell Atlas of the Small Intestine

Small Intestine Cellular Composition
Quoting directly: “The lining or epithelium of the gut is one of the body’s most diverse and [MORE]

Spray-On Heart Muscle

Muscles in a Spray Can
The first artificial heart patented in the US went to Paul Winchell, more commonly remembered from [MORE]

A Self-Propelled Catheter

Robotic Bronchoscope
The conventional means for looking into lung’s airways is a camera-carrying bronchoscope with additional tools for taking a tissue [MORE]

Odors of Disease and Immune Response

Electronic Nose
Alexander Graham Bell had an interesting observation: “If you are ambitious to find a new science, measure a smell.” [MORE]

Reversible RNA Editing

The Broad Institute’s pioneering lab for gene editing has developed a version of CRISPR that permits reversible RNA editing. “The [MORE]