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Magnets for Drug Delivery

Several new technologies are competing in the drug delivery space for precision medicine, including antibody and nanoparticle designs. This piece, [MORE]

Automated Extraction of Nucleic Acids

eMag™
Paris-based bioMerieux has announced CE mark approval for its “eMAG” automated nucleic acids extractor. The machine can process 48 sample [MORE]

SWAN Lithography for Making Micro and Nano Structures

Creating Micro- And Nanostructures On 3-D Materials
“Spun-Wrapped Aligned Nanofiber” is the name that engineers at Virginia Tech have applied to [MORE]

Automating Patch Clamping

Patcherbot
Among the several “omics” of molecular biology is channelomics which refers to ion channels in all cellular membranes. Channelopathies are [MORE]

New Development in Imaging Atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis
Stanford researchers have demonstrated how fluorescent markers and PET/CT imaging can provide non-invasive scans of atherosclerotic plaque inflammation. The probes [MORE]

Personalized Medical Devices—3-D Printed Biodegradable Stents

3D Printing Customized Stents
Today’s arterial stents are made from either metal or plastic. They come in different sizes, and the [MORE]

Polarized Nuclear Imaging Combines MRI and Gamma Ray

Xenon Imaging
In medicine, xenon has largely been known as a general anesthetic, but two University of Virginia physicists are exploring [MORE]

Looking Inside Arteries

Pantheris Full Flair
Interventional cardiologists at the University of California-San Diego’s cardiovascular center are the first in the nation to use [MORE]

C.S. Draper Lab’s Artificial Lung

Lung Assist Draper Laboratories
Since 1953, when Dr. John Gibbon invented the first heart-lung machine, open heart surgeries of all kinds [MORE]

Nanowire Detection of Prostate Cancer

Memristor
Quoting directly: “[Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)] researchers have managed to get around this obstacle by inventing a new [MORE]

Computer Assisted Design for Nano Drug Delivery

Computer Model UPenn
Cell surfaces “flutter” to thermal fluxuations, according to researchers in this piece. And, that undulation influences how well [MORE]

Data from the World’s Smallest Pacemaker

Micra
Medtronic has released data from the clinical trial of its Micra Transcather Pacing System—i.e. a pacemaker only one-tenth the size [MORE]

Stem Cell-Derived Model of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Hypertrophic Cardiomypahthy
In an astute cell engineering experiment, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine (Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC) converted skin [MORE]

More Sensitive Surgical Tools

Surgery Tool
Keyhole surgery—aka minimally invasive surgery—usually doesn’t create holes in the patient’s body that are large enough for a surgeon [MORE]