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Soft Robotic Catheter for Beating Heart Surgery

A shape-shifting robotic catheter could make heart surgery safer
“Based on an octopus-inspired device previously created by Ranzani, it incorporates a [MORE]

Promoting Liver Regeneration

Promoting liver regeneration
“[Researchers at Boston University] propose vascular-endothelial-growth-factor A (VEGFA) as a therapeutic means to accelerate biliary epithelial-cell (BEC)-to-hepatocyte conversion. [MORE]

Smart Pill Colonoscopy

From left, team members Qijun Liu of Boston University, Maria Eugenia Inda of MIT, and Miguel Jimenez of MIT pose [MORE]

Bionic Pancreas Improves T1D Control

Bionic pancreas improves type 1 diabetes management
“Compared to other available artificial pancreas technologies, the bionic pancreas requires less user input [MORE]

Heart on a Chip

 
New miniature heart could help speed heart disease cures
Boston University engineers “demonstrate how high-precision fabrication can enable scaled-down modeling of [MORE]

Improving Brain Scans

Funky Helmet Enhances MRI Brain Scans
“A team of engineers and radiologists at Boston University created a helmet that can dramatically [MORE]

Ultra-Miniaturized Endoscope

Images from lensless computational microendoscope
A collaboration between optical engineers in Boston and Baltimore have designed a minimally invasive, lens-free, computational [MORE]

Biomarker for Salt Sensitive Bood Pressure

Salt Sensitivity
Most people have heard the caution about dietary salt increasing blood pressure, and the blanket advice that all people [MORE]

Printed Diagnostics

Paper-Based Diagnostics for Ebola
A researcher at Boston University has printed single strands of DNA onto a specially treated paper substrate. [MORE]

Bionic Pancreas

Diabetes Bionic Pancreas
Edward Damiano, PhD, a biomedical engineer at Boston University, developed this artificial pancreas for his son who suffers [MORE]

Bihormonal Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas

The April 14th issue of Science Translational Medicine has a research article describing how bioengineers at Boston University and [MORE]