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Synthetic Biology Primes Solid Tumors for Immunotherapy

Engineered bacterium armed with cancer fighting antibody
Engineering bacteria to deliver anticancer drugs amounts to giving an untreatable cancer a treatable [MORE]

“Hair Farms”

Hair follicle
Using a 3D printer to make plastic molds for skin tissue, bioengineers at Columbia University added a “cocktail of [MORE]

A More Attentive Hearing Aid

Brain controlled hearing aid
Most hearing aids are simply sound amplifiers—unable to distinguish individual sounds in a cacophony. But a better [MORE]

Engineering a Breathing Lung

Bioengineering Using Functional Vascularized Lung Scaffold
Columbia University bioengineers have created the first functional lung (rodent) with perfusable and healthy vasculature.  [MORE]

Million Electrode Array for Brain-Computer Interface

Brain Electrode
Under DARPA’s Neural Engineering Systems Design Program, engineers at Columbia University have developed a high density electrode array that’s [MORE]

Implantable Micromachines

Implantable Microrobots
Hydrogels have come a long way since Dutch chemist and physician Jacob Maarten van Bemmelen first described their nature [MORE]

Cartilage Regeneration

Anatomy of TMJ
Quoting directly from this piece: “Researchers [Columbia University, College of Dental Medicine] have identified stem cells in the [MORE]

Custom Bioreactor for Growing Bones

Lab-Grown Living Bone
Jawbone defects have been corrected using bone tissue taken from elsewhere in the patient’s body and implanted where [MORE]

Regenerating Heartbeat from Stem Cells

Cardiomyocyte
Cardiomyocytes are the heart muscle cells that cause other heart cells to contract and release, thus establishing heartbeat. But when [MORE]

Columbia University’s 467 Gene Targeted Cancer Panel

Illuminia HiSeq2500
The first was last when it came to sequencing human chromosomes. Work on Chromosome 1, the last, was completed [MORE]

Single Molecule Diode

Diodes are electrical devices that allow current to flow in only one direction.  They function in all electrical equipment, but [MORE]

Diagnosing Syphilis on a Smart Phone

Smartphone Dongles for Blood Testing
Equipment to test blood for syphilis or HIV can run well over $10,000, but engineers at [MORE]

Meniscus Tissue Regeneration

Knee Meniscus
People may live to be 125 years old, but they won’t outlive arthritis, which in millions of cases degenerates [MORE]

Biodegradable Nanoparticles Deliver Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

A multicenter research group in New York and Boston has shown that an anti-inflammatory peptide called “Ac2-26,” can be [MORE]