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New Device for Detecting Eye Diseases

Optical Coherence Tomography
Optical coherence tomography is a technology that bends infrared light in examining eyes for such things as [MORE]

Growing Livers Outside the Body

The liver can regenerate itself naturally, but that has been very difficult to achieve outside the body.  However, researchers [MORE]

Biodegradable Nanoparticles Deliver Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

A multicenter research group in New York and Boston has shown that an anti-inflammatory peptide called “Ac2-26,” can be [MORE]

New Gene Editing Strategy

Editing DNA
For about two decades, gene therapists have searched for a way to inactivate a harmful gene or replace [MORE]

3-D Printer in a Briefcase

3D Printer
So far this year, Tagline has carried stories about 3-D printing of bones (Jan. 17 and Mar. 13), [MORE]

Predictive Health Forecasting

It is fairly common that a physician sees a patient and has no access to that person’s prior medical [MORE]

Variable Dose Jet Injector

Jet Injection System
Air-jet vaccinators have been around since the smallpox eradication campaign, but engineers at MIT have improved the [MORE]

Checking for Cataracts with a Cellphone

Cell Phone Eye Test for Cataracts
Claiming that a new iPhone clip-on device for cataract detecting “gathers more information than [MORE]

Six Degrees Sensors

Particle Trap Microsphere
Researchers at the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT have developed a particle trap that combines [MORE]

Listening for Depression

Speech Recognition Graph
Most voice-recognition software programs focus on words and phrases, but Professor Sandy Pentland, at MIT’s Media Lab, has [MORE]

Drug-Infused Nanoparticles

Based on pioneering work Robert Langer (MIT) has done with self-assembling polymers, BIND Biosciences (Cambridge, MA) is carrying out [MORE]

MIT’s NextLab Developing Health Applications for Cellphones

MIT’s NextLab challenges its students to imagine how cellphones could change the world,
MIT Develops Health Cell Phone Applications
based on [MORE]

Computational Immunology

Last February, philanthropists Phillip and Susan Ragon pledged $100m to create the Ragon Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (in collaboration [MORE]

Self-Assembling Nanoparticles

In a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a research team from Microsoft and MIT [MORE]