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Stryker’s Surgical Robot for Knee Replacements

Stryker Mako Robot
About a million arthroplasties (joint replacements) are performed worldwide annually, and many of them are bloody affairs, with [MORE]

Nanoparticle-Enabled Gene Editing

CRISPR Delivery Mechanism
Getting CRISPR-Cas 9 molecules to their target cells without damage or off-targeting has been an obstacle for gene [MORE]

Imaging Atherosclerosis with a Camera Inside Blood Vessels

Fiberoptic Scanner
Atherosclerosis—the accumulation of plaque in blood vessels, “hardening” them—is a major cause of cardiovascular disease in the heart and [MORE]

Automated Liquid Biopsy

Volcano CTC System
Because tumor cells in blood tend to be larger than blood cells, it’s possible to separate the two [MORE]

Shooting in Stem Cells with a “Skin Gun”

RenovaCare Skin Gun
Remember Cornell University’s “gene gun” in 1987 that used an air pistol to shoot metal particles coated with [MORE]

Transcranial Near-IR Spectroscopy for Locked-In ALS

Oxygen Sensor Locked-in-Syndrome
Can a “locked-in” patient suffering from advanced ALS enjoy life? The question seemed imponderable until Wyss Institute bioengineers [MORE]

Synthetic Anti-Venom Nanoparticle

Snake Milking
With pains-taking trial and error methods (aka “directed evolution”) researchers at the University of California-Irvine have made nanoparticles that [MORE]

Silly Putty as a Vital Signs Sensor

Silly Putty Sensor
Mixing a small amount of graphene into the child’s toy “Silly Putty” results in a material that can [MORE]

Soft Tissue Membrane from Umbilical Cord for Modulating Inflammation during Surgery

Avive Soft Tissue Membrane
In some cases of nerve grafting, surgeons use a conduit to hold severed endings in place, and [MORE]

Home Vital Signs Monitoring Device

OslerMD Vital Signs
OslerMD (San Diego, CA) is moving toward commercial release of its Rapid Vital Sign Measuring Device, which uses [MORE]

Voice Indicators of Heart Disease

Cardiac Vocal Biomarker
Is there a “biomarker” for atherosclerosis in the voice of a person with hardened arteries? A Tel Aviv, [MORE]

A Pillcam with Four Cameras

Capsocam-1
The aptly named company “CapsoVision” (Saratoga, CA) makes a swallowable capsule-endoscopy device that has four cameras giving a 360 degree [MORE]

Semi-Automated Production of Hematopoietic Stem Cells

CliniMACS
Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle have developed a semi-automated process for separating and expanding hematopoietic stem [MORE]

Ceramic Bone Screws

Scrails
When bone fractures have to be mended with screws or nails, surgeons usually use fasteners made of titanium or polymer. [MORE]