POSTS TAGGED AS EPFL

Detecting Neurodegenerative Biomakrers

Coupled plasmonic infrared sensor for detection of structural protein biomarkers in neurodegenerative disease
“We [at EPFL Lausanne, CH) developed an immunoassay-coupled [MORE]

Smart Microscopes

Suliana Manley’s fluorescent microscope at EPFL
“An intelligent microscope is kind of like a self-driving car. It needs to process certain [MORE]

Optical Tomography Bioprinting

Volumetric bioprinting process
Bioprinting today is performed as an additive manufacturing process—layer by layer.  Researchers at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) now show [MORE]

A “Channelpedia” of Potassium Ion Channels

Ion channel data base
Researchers in the “Blue Brain Project” at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) have created a rough draft map of [MORE]

“Targeting” Electrical Stimulation for Treating Paralysis

Walking after paralysis
Here’s a noteworthy statement: “All patients involved in the study recovered voluntary control of leg muscles that had [MORE]

Optical “Waveguides” in Medical Devices

3D Waveguide fabrication
This from EPFL engineers in Lausanne, Switzerland: “For the first time, researchers have fabricated light-guiding structures known as [MORE]

Drinkable Electronic Sensors

Drinkable electronic sensors
Swiss scientists have designed microsensors that are tiny enough to pass into the blood stream and congregate at [MORE]

2D Materials, Graphene Was Only the Beginning

2D Materials
Graphene—a two dimensional carbon material discovered in 2004—has opened the search for other atom-thin structures that have unusual magnetic, [MORE]

A Health “Snapshot” in Sweat

Portable System to Analyze Sweat
Swiss engineers have built a tiny (one centimeter squared) biomarker analyzer that uses sweat as its [MORE]

Wireless Heart Pump Has No Contact with Blood

EPFL-Wireless Heart Pump
Undesirable effects of both artificial hearts and left ventricular assist devices are damage done to red blood cells [MORE]