POSTS TAGGED AS Cambridge University

Pressure Sensors Made of “White Graphene”

Materials scientists at the Technical University of Delft and at Cambridge University have engineered a process to make microscopic pressure [MORE]

Automating Rare Genetic Disease Diagnosis

DNA
Computational biologists at Cambridge University and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have written an algorithm called “PHenomeNET Variant [MORE]

Working with Eve

Robotic Scientist Eve
“Eve” picks up after “Adam”—wouldn’t you know it! But in this case both are scientific robots that test [MORE]

Tunable Microsieves

Lipid Membranes
Using synthetic lipid spheres and DNA ligands, biochemists at Cambridge University have developed what they believe to be a [MORE]

Artificial DNA Used to Make Enzymes

Synthetic XNAs
Here’s an interesting thought: “Life’s ‘choice’ of RNA and DNA may just be an accident of prehistoric chemistry.” That’s [MORE]

Expanding RFID

Iotera-RFID
Two pieces here discuss development in radio frequency identification tags—passive or battery-less tags developed at Cambridge University that are [MORE]

Holographic Diagnostics

Hologram
Scientists at Cambridge University have invented a new kind of diagnostic device.  They embedded silver nanoparticles in hydrogel.  When a [MORE]

Printing Retinas

3D Printed Retina
Ophthalmology researchers at Cambridge University have taken a large step toward engineering functional retinas using an ink [MORE]

Another First for Whole Genome Sequencing

This piece is best summarized in its own words:  “For the first time, researchers from Cambridge have used DNA sequencing [MORE]

Automating Synthetic Bone-Making process

Lego Robots for Building Bone
Fabricating artificial bone is a process that resembles candle-making—by repeated dippings.  To offset this labor-intensive [MORE]

Gene Therapy for Stem Cells

In a remarkable clinical experiment, researchers at the UK’s Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge have demonstrated a [MORE]

Artificial Pancreas

Artificial Pancreas
Roman Hovorka, head of the Diabetes Modeling Group at Cambridge University is within striking distance of creating a commercially [MORE]