POSTS TAGGED AS Wyss Institute

3-D Printing: The Nephron’s Proximal Tube

Kidney Nephron
With some 93,000 people now waiting—in some cases up to ten years—for a live kidney transplant, the need for [MORE]

Drug Delivery via MRI

MRI
By “hacking” a conventional MRI machine, researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital were able to steer ferrous nanoparticles through the blood [MORE]

Discrete Molecular Imaging From Wyss

Wyss Discrete Molecular Imaging
This is a follow up piece from a Tagline story on July 26 about the Wyss Institute’s [MORE]

“Designer” Biosensor Proteins

Fluorescent Biosensor
It would be useful, indeed, to have a biosensor that could detect the metabolic activity with a living cell. [MORE]

Non-Surgical Repair of Holes in Heart

Ventricular Septal Defect
“Blue baby syndrome” mainly comes from a ventricular septal defect, commonly known as a hole in the heart, [MORE]

CRISPR-Enabled Xenotransplants

Crystal Structure of Cas9
A pig’s heart is about the same size as a human’s, but a xenotransplant has not been [MORE]

Orthotic Exoskeleton for Ankle Rehabilitation

Soft Pneumatic Exoskeleton
Relying on four artificial muscles and several sensors, this soft orthotic exoskeleton from the Wyss Institute at [MORE]

3-D Printing of Microbatteries

Microbatteries
A collaboration between engineers at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign and Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have, [MORE]

Spleen-on-a-Chip

Spleen-on-a-Chip
Following Tagline’s stories (March 12, and May 7) about the Wyss Institute’s “organs-on-a-chip,” here’s a piece about another organ– [MORE]

Spleen-on-a-Chip

Spleen-on-a-Chip
Following Tagline’s stories (March 12, and May 7) about the Wyss Institute’s “organs-on-a-chip,” here’s a piece about another organ– [MORE]

Organs-on-a-Chip Move Toward Commercialization

With support from DARPA and pharmaceutical companies, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (Harvard University SEE VIDEO ON [MORE]

“Lung-on-a-Chip”

Lung-on-a-Chip
This piece is a follow up on an earlier story in Tagline about the Wyss Institute’s microfluidics chip used [MORE]

Gut-on-a-Chip

Gut-on-a-Chip
The video embedded in this piece shows a very remarkable development from the Wyss Institute at Harvard: a microdevice [MORE]

Smart Nanotherapeutics

In 2009, Swiss entrepreneur Hansjorg Wyss gave Harvard University its single largest monetary gift ever–$125m-to create the Wyss Institute [MORE]