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Detecting Cancer Cells by Tinsel Strength

Miniaturized electomechanical device
Lesions of certain skin diseases, such as psoriasis and melanoma, present a higher degree of surface stiffness than [MORE]

3D Skin Mapping

3D Mapping of the skin
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have built a portable imaging device, relying on a [MORE]

High Resolution Images of Melanomas, Deep in Skin

Skin_layers
Bioelectromagnetic scientist Negar Tavassolian, at the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ), has used a new method to image tumors [MORE]

Retinoic Acid and Self-Noncoding Double-Stranded RNA

dsRNA
Much of the excitement about regenerative medicine goes to regrowing internal organs for transplantation.  But wrinkles and scars are also [MORE]

Skin Cancer Detecting Robot

Demascope to detect melanona
Last year, Stanford researchers reported on an artificial intelligence technology called a “convoluted neural network” to screen images [MORE]

Biomaterials: Liquid Silk

Pure Liquid Silk – Fibroin
Silk Therapeutics Inc. (Medford, M.A.) is a skin care company at present, using pure fibroin (silk [MORE]

Interesting Thermal Camera for a Smartphone

Seek Thermal Camera
This YouTube video is borderline goofy, but it refers to a $200 thermal camera (from Thermal.com) which can [MORE]

Printing Skin for Grafts

PrintAlive Skin Bioprinter
While the Japanese are working on an innovative burn dressing, researchers at the University of Toronto have demonstrated [MORE]

Growing Cartilage from Stem Cells

Fats Cells for Ears
Some 6,000 to 8,000 babies are born each year in the US with microtia—a non genetic birth [MORE]

Color Sensing for Skin Diseases

Mazet Color Analysis
MAZeT GmbH (Erfurt, Germany) makes a multi-spectral color sensor that can be used (and may already be [MORE]

Filling the Extracellular Matrix for Younger Skin

Dermatologists at the University of Michigan have shown that injections of fibroblasts into the skin stimulate collagen production which [MORE]

Skin Patch for Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinomas

It is estimated that one in five Americans will develop a non-melanoma skin cancer (i.e. basal cell or squamous cell [MORE]

Winners of the 2012 Medical Design Excellence Awards

Freedom Portable Driver
Among the 26 winners shown in this piece are a wearable ventilator, the world’s smallest heart-lung machine, [MORE]

Hydrogel Scaffold for Burn Healing

Hydrogel
Johns Hopkins University researchers intended to design a hydrogel loaded with stem cells to promote wound healing, but their [MORE]