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It Looks Like a Speck of Dust; it is a Catheter Chip for Internal Imaging

Chip to Visualize Heart in 3-D for Surgery
First, think of an ultrasound device with 56 transmitters and 48 receivers, then [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]

240 Genomes Sequenced in 50 hours

Beagle Computer
The day of the $1,000 genome may have already arrived, but that’s only for the cost of sequencing.  Analyzing [MORE]

Micro-Robotic Tissue Engineering

3-D Tissue Printer
Quoting directly from this piece: “The presented approach uses untethered magnetic micro-robotic coding for precise construction of [MORE]

Laser-Enabled Breath Analysis

Breath Analysis
Breath has a physiological “fingerprint” from the small amounts of gases that are released from both healthy and diseases [MORE]

Real Time Seeing Radiation Kill Cancer

The brilliant blue light we associate with radioactive fuel rods in a reactor’s pool is due to particles moving through [MORE]

Engineering Synthetic Cartilage

Scaffold for Hydrogel Used to Form Cartilage
Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964) were the first generation of American children to participate [MORE]

Sugar-Based Tracing Agent for PET

Since 1976, when medical scientists at the University of Pennsylvania first used fluorodeoxyglucose (deoxyglucose with a fluorine 18 [MORE]

Methylome Biomarkers for Schizophrenia

Not all genetic diseases arise from mutations.  Some result from DNA methylation—i.e. post translational modification.  With schizophrenia, oxygen deprivation, [MORE]

Molecular Sensor for MS

Advamced Imaging of Thrombin
Neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco have shown how disruption of the blood brain [MORE]

Sensored Belt Allows Continuous ECG Monitoring for Two Weeks

EKG Monitor
Based on developing “dry” electrodes, which do not need a gel to transmit a heartbeat pulse to an [MORE]

Gene Therapy Progress Against X-linked SCID

David Vetter was the “bubble boy’s” name and he may have been the most well known patient in medical [MORE]

Diabetic Fruit Flies

Fruit fly on right, genetically altered, has symptoms comparable to type 2 diabetes.
Just about a century ago the “fly [MORE]

Nanotube Dental Implants

Bone Cells Adhering to Nanotubes
Two part dental implants—a bone screw and an artificial tooth—are expensive in the first place [MORE]