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Attacking Brain Tumors with Liquid Polymer Nanoparticles

Glioblastoma Cells
In an example of “customized nanomedicine,” cancer researchers at Northwestern University constructed lipid nanoparticles carrying four siRNAs aimed at [MORE]

A Synthetic Ovary Allows Sterilized Mice to Give Birth

Order of Changes in Ovary
In fertility studies of mice, bioengineers at Northwestern University have determined that the architecture of a [MORE]

Monitoring Macular Degeneration with a Contact Lens

Detect Ultrasound with Light
Optical ultrasound detection is a new aspect of photoacoustic imaging, and comes from engineers at Northwestern University. [MORE]

Personalized Medical Devices—3-D Printed Biodegradable Stents

3D Printing Customized Stents
Today’s arterial stents are made from either metal or plastic. They come in different sizes, and the [MORE]

“Atrial 4-D Flow CMR”

Cardiac Imaging
Besides the unsettling fear from an irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation increases a patient’s stroke risk. To gage that risk, [MORE]

Bone Ink for 3-D Printers

Ramille Shah Created Hyper-Elastic 3D Printed Bone
In 3-D bioprinting, it’s more a matter of the ink than of the printer [MORE]

Terahertz Radiation through a 3-D Printed Lens for Medical Imaging

Terahertz Lens
Terahertz radiation exists in the EM spectrum between microwave and infrared. It has several advantages in imaging such as [MORE]

3-D Printed Ovary Implant

This is an astonishing story and a direct quote says it all: “[Researchers at Northwestern University] used a 3D printer [MORE]

First Artificial Ribosome

Ribosomes in a Cell
I almost missed this piece from last summer and it would have been a major oversight had [MORE]

Is Your Phone Smarter than Your Shrink?

Smartphone
Does excessive cellphone use contribute to depression, or do depressed people simply use their phones more, constantly checking on emails, [MORE]

3-D Printing of Graphene Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering

Once you know what’s happening, it looks simple—“once you know” being the hard part. Bioengineers at Northwestern University have created [MORE]

Topical Nanoparticle Ointment for Wound Healing

Aquaphor
Diabetes can create horrendous wounds that defy healing and sometime result in amputations. To address this, dermatologists at Northwestern University [MORE]

Blood Test for Telomere Topography Predicts Cancer

Telomere
Telomeres have long been thought to be predictors of life expectancy, and telomere resiliency is implicated in the kind of [MORE]

Synthetic ACL Graft

Nanotechnology for ACL Replacements
“A synthetic graft for ACL reconstruction has been developed that integrates with the native bone, promotes growth [MORE]