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Artificial Synapses for Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Salleo Developing Artificial Synapse
As remarkable as implanted brain devices are in restoring some forms of normal neural activity, they [MORE]

Stanford’s “Nanostraws” for Cell Sampling

Nicholas Melosh Developed Non-Destructive Cell Sampling System
To find out what chemical reactions are going on within a cell, the most [MORE]

Lab-on-a-Chip Diagnostic Chip Can Screen Several Diseases and Cost Less Than a Penny

Lab-on-a-Chip for a Penny
Once in a while, something that’s too good to be true might actually be so, as an [MORE]

Can Smartwatches Really Alert to Oncoming Sickness?

Smart Watch
The worried-well can now use a smartwatch to say “I told you I was sick.” This piece describes how [MORE]

Liquid Biopsy for Circulating Tumor Cells for $30

MagSifter
That’ll be the day when a life-saving, minimally invasive diagnostic for metastatic cancer costs $30. But that, at least, is [MORE]

New Development in Imaging Atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis
Stanford researchers have demonstrated how fluorescent markers and PET/CT imaging can provide non-invasive scans of atherosclerotic plaque inflammation. The probes [MORE]

A Path to Precision Cardiac Medicine

CRISPR-Cas9 Mode of Action
About 30% of drugs in clinical trials are withdrawn because of safety issues, several of which present [MORE]

Embryonic Stem Cells Create Bone and Heart Tissue

Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Stem cell biologists at Stanford and in Singapore have been able to map the check points at [MORE]

Making Electronic Skin Like the Real Thing

Electronic Skin
The video in this piece, from the American Chemical Society, describes materials engineering work at Stanford University which aims [MORE]

Stem Cell Transplantation for Stroke is Effective

CT Scan of Stroke
The incidence of ischemic stroke, caused by a blood clot, is nearly 700,000 per year in the [MORE]

Ant-Inspired Micro-Robots

Micro Robots Pull Car
If not just for fun, this video ought to raise philosophical thoughts about humans and their machines. [MORE]

Robust Dipstick Urinalysis

Stanford Home Urine Test
For diabetics, first it was the DIY urine dipstick in 1956, then the personal glucometer for home [MORE]

Self-Healing Artificial Muscle

Stretchable, Self-Healing Polymer
For a synthetic material to mimic human muscle, it must be flexible, self-healing, stable at normal temperatures, and [MORE]

Targeting AAV Vectors to an Essential Receptor

AAV2 Ribbon Diagram
Adeno-associated virus looked like a promising vector for gene therapy in the mid-1990s, but then sank with the [MORE]