POSTS TAGGED AS immune response

Implantable Cell Factories Produce Insulin

MIT developing living drug factories
This piece describes how MIT engineers have taken liver cells, converted them to insulin producing cells [MORE]

Drug Delivery via Red Blood Cells

Functionalized red blood cells for drug delivery
“[R]esearchers at McMaster University in Canada have developed a way of emptying red blood [MORE]

E-nose Assess Immunotherapy Prognosis

Analysis of exhaled breath
Oncologists at the Netherlands Cancer Institute “hypothesized that molecular profiling of exhaled air may capture the inflammatory [MORE]

Novel Biomaterial Supports Local Angiogenesis

Biomaterial promotes perfusion after ischemia
Living body tissues, when deprived of oxygen (ischemia), die, becoming ulcerous or gangrenous; consequently, restoring blood [MORE]

Growing Blood without A, B and RhD Antigens

Red blood cells
There are 36 different blood groups and more than 350 antigens on red blood cells that can cause [MORE]

Programmable RNA Vaccines

Vaccine Injection
The thought of creating vaccines from nucleic acids has existed for a generation, but now MIT investigators seem to [MORE]

Growing Transplantable Vocal Cords

Engineered Vocal Cords
This is barely to the prestage of baby’s first words, but regenerative medicine researchers at the University of [MORE]

Capturing Neutrophils in a Microtrap

Capturing Neutrophils
Biomedical engineer Ken Kotz and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital have built a microfluidics device that captures mobilized [MORE]