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Magnetic Cell Sensors

Ferritin Protein Complex
After screen about ten million variants of the naturally occurring weakly magnetic protein ferritin, MIT researchers discovered a [MORE]

An Ingestible Stethoscope

Swallow Sensor
Heart and respiration rates are key indicators for many medical conditions, and while the stethoscope is now in its [MORE]

The Ultimate Wearable

3D Printed Photosynthetic Wearable
“Mushtari” is its name, from Arabic meaning “huge.” Maybe it should also mean “mindboggling.” This prototype of [MORE]

A Smarter Neural Implant

Multi Function Fiber
Neurons depend upon chemical and electrical signaling simultaneously; so, a smarter neural implant would do the same. To [MORE]

Engineering a Controlled-Growth Bone Scaffold

MIT Bone Growth
MIT chemical engineers have created a bone-growth scaffold that fits in an injured area and slowly releases bone [MORE]

Acoustic Cell Sorting

Cell Separation with Acoustic Waves
Cell sorting had long been an interest in livestock breeding and in 1981 researchers figured out [MORE]

Fourth Dimension Printing: Self-Assembly

4-D Printing
The crucial distinction between 3-D printing and 4-D printing is the latter’s self-assembly capability, according to Skylar Tibbits, director [MORE]

Light Sensitive Molecule for Noninvasive Optogenetics

Optogenetics
“MIT engineers have now developed the first light-sensitive molecule that enables neurons to be silenced noninvasively, using a light source [MORE]

Bioprinting Vascular Networks

Artificial Vascular Networks
Before bioprinting can turn the dream of lab-made human organs into reality, the problem of creating capillaries in [MORE]

Wi-Vi Movement Tracking

Wi Vi
“Wi-Vi’ means wireless vision, and videos with this piece show how it can be used to monitor an [MORE]

Automated Patch Clamping

Boyden Brain Cell Robot
Researchers at MIT and Georgia Tech have developed a robot that automatically advances a glass pipette into [MORE]

Writing Genetic Languages

GenoCAD
If synthetic biologists can develop a recombinant plant that produces a human protein such as interleukin-2 and fold it to [MORE]

A Paper Strip for Diagnosing Cancer

Paper Diagnostic for Cancer
It’s not surprising that most of cancer mortality occurs in the developing world; that’s where human populations [MORE]

CRISPR Again

CRISPR DNA
Tagline first mentioned the gene-editing technique CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palendromic repeats) on March 12, 2013 shortly after [MORE]