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Cancer Detection in an Hour

Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Systems Biology have used magnetic nanoparticles, with attached protein ligands, to detect [MORE]

Chipping Away at Cancer

Microfluidic chips have been useful in capturing biomarkers and pathogens, but thus far they haven’t been particularly apt at [MORE]

Capturing Neutrophils in a Microtrap

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

Microfluidic Chip and Automated Imaging for Tumor Tracking

Using a microfluidic chip that researchers at Harvard developed three years ago to capture metastatic prostate cells in the [MORE]

The ICEMan Cometh- MD-ICEMAN

Anyone who has visited a seriously sick person in the hospital, or witnessed a major surgery can envision the [MORE]

Rapid TB Test

Tuberculosis sufferers account for some two billion people worldwide. The disease’s spread is a public health concern of the highest [MORE]

Computational Immunology

Last February, philanthropists Phillip and Susan Ragon pledged $100m to create the Ragon Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (in collaboration [MORE]

An ATM Version of the Doctor Visit

Ronald Dixon, M. D., director of the Virtual Practice Project at Massachusetts General Hospital, is miniaturizing the mini-clinic to kiosk [MORE]

Nano Suturing

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a surgical suturing technique that uses a green light laser and a light [MORE]