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Printing Antibodies on Paper for Drug Testing

Printing Morphine Antibodies on Paper
VTT, Finland’s government technology research agency near Helsinki, has reported on a means for printing morphine [MORE]

Soft Robotics for Surgeons

Star-shaped Microgrippers
In most instances, soft robotics perform gripping function—from handling delicate electronic components to repairing instruments in space. Researchers at [MORE]

Self-Assembling Protein Fibers 

Creating a Self-Assembling Protein
“Amyloid” brings to mind a rogue’s gallery of human afflictions, from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s to atherosclerosis and [MORE]

Trans-Oral Robotic Surgery

TORS
The Da Vinci surgical robot is most often seen in prostate cancer operations, but in this piece a Head & [MORE]

Implanted Device for Blood Pressure Control

ROX Medical – the Coupler
In a British clinical trial, ROX Medical (San Clemente, CA) has shown that its “Coupler” device [MORE]

Dementia-in-a-Dish

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
About half of patients who develop early-onset frontotemporal dementia have a mutation in the gene expressing progranulin [MORE]

Meniscus Tissue Regeneration

Knee Meniscus
People may live to be 125 years old, but they won’t outlive arthritis, which in millions of cases degenerates [MORE]

Artificial DNA Used to Make Enzymes

Synthetic XNAs
Here’s an interesting thought: “Life’s ‘choice’ of RNA and DNA may just be an accident of prehistoric chemistry.” That’s [MORE]

Growing Human Tendons in the Lab

Tendon Regeneration
Add tendons to the increasing list of human tissue that now have been grown outside the body. The Australian [MORE]

Optically Optimizing Anticancer Drugs

Nanodevice to Improve Cancer Treatment Monitoring
While genomics research works to find the drivers of metabolism, which, among other things, determine [MORE]

Implantable/Dissolvable Sensors

Dissolvable Electronic Devices
This says it all: “Electronic devices that dissolve completely in water, leaving behind only harmless end products, are [MORE]

Imaging by Vibration “Signatures”

BCARS
As the National Institute of Standards and Technology reports, a new method—called “broadband, coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy—has been developed to [MORE]

Sleep and Disease Indications

Sleep Disturbances
This report, about studies done at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, suggests that sleep disturbance is an early [MORE]

Urine Test for Preterm Births

Scan of Baby in Womb
While it’s unclear why the rate of premature births has risen over the past 20 years [MORE]