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Semi-Synthetic Biology—“JCVI-syn3A”

Synthetic cell growing and dividing
From the J. Craig Venter Institute and collaborators at NIST and MIT comes this: “For the [MORE]

A Wearable Watch to Monitor Blood Pressure?

Wearable Blood Pressure Monitor
It seems like it ought to be easy—a wearable watch-like device that continuously monitors blood pressure. But [MORE]

Shape-Shifting Sensor for Internal Body Probing

Shape Shifting Sensor
How is it possible today to tell if an artificial hip prosthetic has become infected? Pain, redness, swelling, [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]

Genomic Benchmarking

Human Genome in 3-D
In the beginning, there were the government supported Human Genome Mapping Project, and the privately funded one [MORE]

Hyperspectral Imaging in Medicine

Satellite cameras, hovering 27,000 miles above earth can scan surface objects in great detail and in color by means [MORE]

Magnetic Beads Transport Chip

Combining features of microfluidic devices, magnetic beads, and technology more typically applied to random access memory of computers, engineers [MORE]

Mini-Sensor for Detecting Heartbeat

It’s hard to imagine that a human heartbeat can create a local disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field, but, [MORE]