POSTS TAGGED AS bioscience

Remote Controlled Surgical Devices in the Planning

Magnetic activators
MIT researchers have created a magnetic ink and used it to 3-D print a surgical tool prototype that can [MORE]

Georgetown’s REMBRANT

Bioinformatics
REMBRANT is an acronym for Repository for Molecular Brain Neoplasms Data.  Originally, the National Cancer Institute compiled and organized the [MORE]

Regenerating Brain Tissue

Brain tissue regenerated in mice after stroke
Using an alginate hydrogel infused with vascular endothelial growth factor and other agents, researchers [MORE]

The American Gut Project

Digestive system
In 2012, the University of California at San Diego’s internal review board approved a crowd funded microbiome project that [MORE]

Heat-Activated Immunotherapy

 
Heat-sensitive genetic switch for T cell
Georgia Tech bioengineers have developed means to control T-cells activity in cancer therapy.  They introduced a [MORE]

MRI Glove

MRI detector glove
New York University School of Medicine engineers have developed a new means for MRI imaging of bones, tendons [MORE]

Geisinger on Routine Sequencing

Geisinger Health
“Precision medicine” based on DNA sequencing is all the buzz in healthcare except among payers who deem molecular profiling [MORE]

A Sugar-Transporting Biosensor for Detecting Cancer

Glut5 fluorescent probe
In making multicolor probes that detect varying levels of glucose transporters in blood, researchers at Michigan Technological University [MORE]

Gene Mapping for Targeted Chemotherapy

Breast Cancer Cell
Anti-cancer chemotherapy originally derived from chemical warfare studies in 1942. Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman discovered the effect [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]

RNA Injection Restores Hearing in Lab Animals

Clusters of Hair Cells in the Cochlea
After sound-blasting anesthetized guinea pigs to the point of deafness, scientists at the Hough [MORE]

Deep Body Temperature Sensing

Imaging and Sensing Probe
“University of Adelaide researchers have invented a world-first tiny fibre-optic probe that can simultaneously measure temperature and [MORE]

CRISPR Versatility

HHMI Investigator Jennifer Doudna and Colleagues Created DETECTR
CRISPR is best known as a gene editing technology, but this report adds [MORE]

Skeletal Regeneration from Bone Marrow Stem Cells

Development of Cartilage Tissue from Stem Cells (red)
“Certain mesenchymal stem/stromal cells from the bone marrow of adults are considered extremely [MORE]