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Pill Endoscopy

Acid reflux, particularly in men, erodes the esophagus, leading to precancerous Barrett’s esophagus, and, if unresolved, to malignancy. Endoscopy [MORE]

Magnetic Coils as Neural Implants

Sub-Millimeter Magnetic Coils
Deep brain stimulation is now a therapy for such neurological disorders as chronic pain, Parkinson’s disease and [MORE]

Growing Lung Tissue in Vitro

Cystic Fibrosis
One of the reasons cystic fibrosis remains incurable is that researchers have not, until now, been able to [MORE]

Stem Cell Approach to Fertility

Using ovaries that were removed from healthy females undergoing sex reassignment, cytologists at Massachusetts General Hospital were able to [MORE]

Cancer Detection in an Hour

One-Hour Cancer Detection
Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Systems Biology have used magnetic nanoparticles, with attached protein ligands, [MORE]

Chipping Away at Cancer

Chip to Capture Cancer Cells
Microfluidic chips have been useful in capturing biomarkers and pathogens, but thus far they haven’t [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]

Microfluidic Chip and Automated Imaging for Tumor Tracking

Tumor Cell
Using a microfluidic chip that researchers at Harvard developed three years ago to capture metastatic prostate cells in [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

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

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

Nano Suturing

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