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Pressure Sensor for the Bladder

May 27, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Bladder Sensor Chip
Bladder pressure can be, at the least, uncomfortable, but for patients who have nerve dysfunction, bladder pressure [MORE]

A Wearable Alternative to Kidney Dialysis

May 13, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Nanofiber Mesh
Researchers at the National Institute for Materials Sciences (Ibaraki, Japan) have developed a prototype material that is capable [MORE]

“Liquid Biopsy” for Prostate Cancer

June 25, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Nanovelcrochip
As pathologists know, all cancers are “written in blood”—with the cells and proteins tumors release into the bloodstream.  [MORE]

Smart Catheters

January 22, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Infections arising from healthcare-associated catheters cause 99,000 deaths in the US annually and an enormous cost for those who [MORE]

Device Controls Overactive Bladder

September 4, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

“VERV” is the trademarked name for Johnson and Johnson’s neurostimulation device to treat incontinence.  It is a small patch [MORE]

Progress Toward Kidney Regeneration

August 14, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Kidney Structures
With tens of thousands of patients on waiting lists for kidney transplants, success in creating kidneys from pig [MORE]

Lighting up Kidney Tumors

August 14, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

A combination of the daVinci surgical robot and an indocyanine green dye injected tracer allows kidney surgeons at Georgetown [MORE]

Super Sensitive Biosensor

July 31, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

With the US Preventive Services Task Force recently downgrading PSA screening to Class D, it may seem like the [MORE]

Predicting Male Fertility

July 31, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Using RNA microarrays, researchers at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (Barcelona, Spain) identified 85 gene expressions associated with low [MORE]

A Fertility Chip

January 3, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Fertility Chip
By now, Ph.D. candidate Loes Segerick should have received her degree from the University of Twente (Enschede, The [MORE]

Google-Earth View of Bladder’s Interior

June 14, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

University of Washington Bladder Scope
Saying that he wants to give urologists “a Google Earth view of the bladder, University [MORE]

Growing New Tissues

April 5, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Anthony Atala, PhD
Though the urethras of five boys were regrown from their own cells and implanted between 2004 and [MORE]

Home Hemodialysis Device

December 7, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

Homechoice Dialysis by DEKA
Those who attended the 2005 Medical Automation Conference will remember Dean Kamen talking about the home [MORE]

Ultrasound as a Long Term Reversible Contraceptive

June 1, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

Testis
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professors James Tsuruta and Paul Dayton won one of 78 awards the Bill and [MORE]