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A One-Molecule Motor

October 25, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Molecular Microchip Motor
Keep in mind that there are as many nanoseconds in a second as there are seconds in [MORE]

Nanofiber Material Simulates VEGF

October 11, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

The transparent circle is nanomaterial that mimics the protein VEGF.
Using an injectable liquid that contains nanoparticles engineered [MORE]

Electronic Tattoos for Biomonitoring

October 4, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Microelectronics
Materials Science professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has developed a flexible, stretchable thin silicon patch [MORE]

Improving Catheter Design

May 17, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Microspec Corp. Multilumen Bump Tubing
Good catheters that bend properly without kinking, don’t break, and allow more channels for inserting [MORE]

Biodegradable Stents

December 21, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

Chemical & Engineering News recently reported that chemists at UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University have developed easy-to-make [MORE]

Heart-Powered Medical Devices

June 29, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

Power from the heart
The piezoelectric effect explains how zinc oxide nanowires can produce an electric current during mechanical stress.  [MORE]

Wearable Impact Sensor for Athletes

June 29, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

Ionic polymer metallic composites are novel materials that generate an electrical current during compression.  Researchers at the University of [MORE]

“Suspended Animation” for Transplantable Organs

June 29, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

Preserving organs for donors
Hemant Thatte, a surgeon at the V.A. Hospital in Boston, has developed a liquid preservative that [MORE]

DNA Nanobots

May 25, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

DNA
Several labs have developed two dimensional and three dimensional structures out of DNA, but recently research groups in New [MORE]

Metal Foam Mimics Bone

March 16, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

In making both orthopedic and dental implants, the weight-bearing strength of the material is crucial-it ought not be weaker [MORE]

Chewing Robot

August 25, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

Taking insights from the way airplanes pitch, roll, rise and descend, engineers at the University of Bristol (UK) have designed [MORE]

First Artificial Nerve Cell

August 11, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

Swedish researchers at a government-financed “Center of Excellence in Organic Bioelectronics” have developed an artificial nerve cell that, instead of [MORE]