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“Molecular Imprinting” for Plastic Antibodies

UC-Irvine chemistry professor Kenneth Shea has lead research in mice studies that shows two different fluorescent imaging probes-one attached [MORE]

Stem Cell Banking

The one hundred or so genes on Chromosome 6 that make up the Major Histocompatibility Complex govern the cell [MORE]

Heart-Powered Medical Devices

The piezoelectric effect explains how zinc oxide nanowires can produce an electric current during mechanical stress.  Knowing this, materials [MORE]

“Suspended Animation” for Transplantable Organs

Hemant Thatte, a surgeon at the V.A. Hospital in Boston, has developed a liquid preservative that may be able [MORE]

A Thermostat for the Immune System

Realizing that an inflammation response is triggered by the brain via the vagus nerve, immunologist and neurosurgeon Kevin Tracey [MORE]

Shock Waves to Grow New Blood Vessels in the Heart

Cardiologists at the Mayo Clinic aren’t sure why acoustic waves initiate a wound-healing process, but nevertheless they are testing [MORE]

Your Microbiome

A human genome has about 25k genes, but the “acquired human microbiome,” in the trillions of microbial cells that inhabit [MORE]

Synthetic Muscles

A protein-based biomaterial that mimics the structure and function of titin in natural muscle tissue has been developed at [MORE]

Integrating Optical Diagnostics With Cell Phone Transmission

UCLA electrical and bioengineering professor Aydogan Ozcan led a research group to produce a lens-less microscope that can scan [MORE]

Plastic RFID Tags

This story described R&D work going on a Sunchon National University in South Korea to make a more receptive [MORE]

Nanoparticles Deliver iRNA’s

Cancer researchers and physicians are awaiting clinical outcome data that Mark Davis and colleagues will present at the June [MORE]

“Nanomembrane Transistors”

Prior to ablating tissue to stop arterial fibrillation, a heart surgeon has to locate the area of the heart that [MORE]

Microfluidic Chip and Automated Imaging for Tumor Tracking

Using a microfluidic chip that researchers at Harvard developed three years ago to capture metastatic prostate cells in the [MORE]

Sensored Contact Lens Detects Glaucoma

High intraocular pressure is a sign of developing glaucoma, and while ophthalmologists have means for measuring that pressure, they [MORE]

Home Monitoring for Physician Efficiency

From a study of 250 patients with diabetes, heart failure, and hypertension, the Cleveland Clinic determined that home monitoring (using [MORE]

“P4″ with Leroy Hood, Personalized Medicine

Predictive, personalized, preventative and participatory (”P4″) is the future of medicine as genomics pioneer Leroy Hood sees it.  Among other [MORE]

Optical “Brain Pacer”

Medtronic (Minneapolis), maker of numerous medical implantable devices, is researching a brain implant that causes neural stimulation from alternative [MORE]

BGI Getting Bigger

The Beijing Genomics Institute’s recent order of 126 DNA sequencers from Illumina, not only makes BGI the world’s largest [MORE]

Spitting Up Your Mutations

California company, Counsyl (Redwood City) has released a genetic test that can tell prospective parents if they are likely [MORE]

Brain Implanted Neurotransmitter Sensors

Deep brain stimulation, for treating Parkinson’s disease, works even if it’s not known how.  But to answer that question, [MORE]