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Reducing COVID-19 Aerosol Particles

FEND nasal spray
“In a paper published in Molecular Frontiers Journal, researchers from Cambridge, Massachusetts have discovered a more effective way [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]

“Prime Editing” with CRISPR

 
Prime editing system
MIT and Harvard researchers have developed a new means of CRISPR gene editing that they believe could correct [MORE]

Using CRISPR for Diagnostic Devices

 
CRISPR to edit DNA gels
MIT and Harvard researchers have used CRISPR to edit DNA in gels making new types of [MORE]

Prototype Automated Exosuit

Running with exoskeleton.
As the population ages, gait-assist devices have increasing relevance.  This piece describes an exosuit that engineers at Harvard [MORE]

Patch Delivers Drugs Directly to Heart

Heart patch drug delivery
In order to get drugs, proteins or stem cells to the heart after an infarction, a collaboration [MORE]

Cell Atlas of the Small Intestine

Small Intestine Cellular Composition
Quoting directly: “The lining or epithelium of the gut is one of the body’s most diverse and [MORE]

Bandage Delivers Timed Medications

Prototype of Smart Bandage
Quoting directly: “Imagine if a wound dressing could release fresh doses of medication over time, oreven different [MORE]

Magnetic Separation of Bacteria in Blood

Blood purification Stopperbild
Since the 1980’s it has been possible to separate hematopoietic stem cells from a bone marrow harvest using [MORE]

Muscle-on-a-Chip for Testing Cardiac Drugs

Cardiomyocytes
Stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes have not yet proven to be effective replacements for damaged hearts. While stem cells do adhere to [MORE]

Non-Surgical Repair of Holes in Heart

Ventricular Septal Defect
“Blue baby syndrome” mainly comes from a ventricular septal defect, commonly known as a hole in the heart, [MORE]

3-D Printing and Injection Molding of Airways Stents

3D Printed Stent
Tracheal stents today are made of metal, silicon or a combination of both materials, but they are not [MORE]

Bioprinting Vascular Networks

Artificial Vascular Networks
Before bioprinting can turn the dream of lab-made human organs into reality, the problem of creating capillaries in [MORE]

CRISPR Again

CRISPR DNA
Tagline first mentioned the gene-editing technique CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palendromic repeats) on March 12, 2013 shortly after [MORE]