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Digital Therapeutics

Digital Therapeutics
Perhaps you’ve seen the advertisements for the weight loss program “Noom.”  It is a software product that tries to [MORE]

Automated Image Classification

Pearse Keane working with AI on imaging
This piece describes more of what might be done than what is done in [MORE]

Blood Biomarkers for Pain

Pain assessment
“Please tell me, on this chart, your pain level from 1 to 10 cartoon faces.”  Hippocrates could have done [MORE]

“Hair Farms”

Hair follicle
Using a 3D printer to make plastic molds for skin tissue, bioengineers at Columbia University added a “cocktail of [MORE]

Patient-Specific Organoid for Treating Cancer

GI anatomy with appendix
Cancer of the appendix is rare—about 1:100,000 people; consequently, knowledge about how to treat these cases is [MORE]

Gene Catalog of Cancer

DNA
How many genes can cause cancer?  Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in England believe the number is more than [MORE]

Predicting Blood Pressure

Wearable technology
Engineers at the University of California at San Diego have designed a wearable monitor that tracks sleep, exercise and [MORE]

Bioengineered Bone Grafts

Bioengineered bone grafts
At the New York Stem Cell Foundation, researchers use an innovative process to produce bone grafts in small [MORE]

Computer Designed Regenerative Heart Valves

Computer-designed customized regenerative heart valve
For children born with defective heart valves, repair solutions are limited, mainly because a prosthesis has [MORE]

Gene Mapping for Targeted Chemotherapy

Breast Cancer Cell
Anti-cancer chemotherapy originally derived from chemical warfare studies in 1942. Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman discovered the effect [MORE]

QR Codes you Swallow

Edible QR Code Medicine
QR (for Quick Release) codes are barcodes mainly used for keeping track of things. But researchers at [MORE]

Printing Customized Drugs

3D Printer to Make Personal Drugs
In case you’ve been wondering for a decade or two how it would be possible [MORE]

Spray Drying for Personalized Drugs

Medications
This piece describes work at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stutgart, Germany, where chemical engineers have developed an improved method of [MORE]

Printing Drugs on Delivery Devices

Printing Medications on Skin Patches
University of Michigan engineers have developed a means of printing drugs onto skin patches, ingestible strips [MORE]