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Gene Therapy in the Brain

Gene therapy can repair neural connections in the brain
“[University of Minnesota] researchers evaluated a new form of gene therapy invented [MORE]

AI and Electrical Brain Stimulation Enhances Mental Function

Researchers boost human mental function with brain stimulation
While gene therapists and ethicists wrestle over mental enhancement, researchers at the University [MORE]

Immune Cells in Organs

 
Increasing immune cells in organs in response to microbial exposure
University of Minnesota immunologists have made three important findings about immune [MORE]

3D Printing a Human Heart Pump

3D Printed heart
“Scientists at the University of Minnesota have 3D printed a beating heart muscle ‘pump’ consisting of pluripotent stem [MORE]

Cold Plasma Reactor for Killing Airborne Virus

Cold plasma for airborne viruses
Agricultural engineers at the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota know “cold,” and in this [MORE]

First Non-Invasive Mind-Computer Interface

Non invasive brain computer interface
In a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon and University of Minnesota, engineers, using a noninvasive brain-computer interface, [MORE]

Prototype for 3-D Printed Bionic Eye

Prototype for bionic eye
Following past success with bionic skin and a bionic ear, engineers at the University of Minnesota have [MORE]

3-D Printed Implantable Device for Spinal Cord Injury

3D printed stem cells
The video with this piece shows how University of Minnesota researchers were able to 3-D print layers [MORE]

Customized Electronics Printed on the Hand

3D Printing on a real hand
“In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota used a customized, low-cost [MORE]

Nano Magnets for Thawing Frozen Tissues

It has long been known that freezing tissues, such as arteries, extends their “shelf life” for transplantation, but problems arise [MORE]

Innovations in 3-D Printing

3D Printing Wake Forest Ear
Over the past year, the six of the seven innovations in 3-D printing and 3-D printers [MORE]

“Off-the-Shelf” Implantable Artificial Blood Vessels

New Born Lamb
Eight years ago, Doris Taylor at the University of Minnesota grew a beating rat heart from a decellularized [MORE]

Speeding up Nanopore Trapping

DNA Threaded Through Nanopipette
Collaborating researchers—chemists at Imperial College London, and electrical and biomedical engineers at the University of Minnesota—have devised [MORE]

3-D Printed Guide for Regrowing Nerves

This piece describes a nerve regeneration technique that may be a long way from clinical reality, or maybe not. Researchers [MORE]