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Monitoring without Electronics

3D Assistive technology
Paul Allen is gone, but his School of Electrical and Computer Engineering lives on at the University of [MORE]

Pill Bottles That Can Order Their Own Refills

3D Printed WiFi
This piece isn’t really about a self-reordering pill bottle, but it could be, based on what University of [MORE]

Hacking Sequencers with Malware of Synthetic DNA; Scary

Illumina Genome Analyzer II Sequencing Machine
Today’s science-fiction can become tomorrow’s breakthroughs or its nightmares. The piece describes such a bad [MORE]

Imaging Atherosclerosis with a Camera Inside Blood Vessels

Fiberoptic Scanner
Atherosclerosis—the accumulation of plaque in blood vessels, “hardening” them—is a major cause of cardiovascular disease in the heart and [MORE]

Improved Cell Culturing for CAR-T Therapy

T-Cell
CAR-T cell therapy for cancer has been more promising than performing so far, partly because T-cells that can recognize protein [MORE]

Comparing Sequencing Platforms Using the Same Tumor Tissue

Foundation Medicine (Cambridge, MA) and Guardant Health (Redwood City, CA) both have genomic sequencing platforms for genomic cancer. Foundation analyzes [MORE]

University of Washington’s “Spiro Call” for Lung Assessment

Testing SpiroSmart
Over the years we’ve seen a few smartphone applications for measuring lung function as a spirometer does. But in [MORE]

Wearable Artificial Kidney

Wearable Artificial Kidney
It make take a willing suspension of disbelief to see this wearable artificial kidney allowing dialysis patients to [MORE]

Moving Whole Tissue through a Microfluidics Device

Microfluidics Device
In processing a tumor biopsy, the pathologist puts the tissue sample through several steps of staining, washing and observing [MORE]

Nanoparticles in Vaccine Production

On-Demand-Vaccine
With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, researchers at the University of Washington have developed and carried [MORE]

“Painting,” Seeing and Excising Glioblastomas

Intracranial robot prototype
There are three stories here about new neurosurgical techniques aimed at treating one of the deadliest cancers, [MORE]

Hand-Held Device for Extracting DNA

Hand-Held Device for Extracting DNA
Extracting DNA from a cell sample and prepping it for sequencing, by current methods, [MORE]

Smartphone Spirometer for Lung Health

Spiro Smart
Based on sound waves during breathing, engineers at the University of Washington have shown that a smartphone’s microphone can [MORE]

Sticky Paper Diagnostics

Bioengineers at the University of Washington believe they have developed a new material that could make a wide range [MORE]