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A Bone Bandage

Bandage-for-bone
After a bone fracture, the naturally occurring purine nucleoside adenosine floods the injury site, but it does not necessarily remain [MORE]

Programming DNA-Based Biomolecules to Target Cancer Cell Membranes

Cell membrane proteins to identify cancer cells
“A new cancer-detecting tool [developed at Duke University] uses tiny circuits made of DNA [MORE]

Smart Microscope Diagnoses Diseases

LED microscope
It’s possible today to earn a medical degree without ever looking through a microscope.  There are many reasons for [MORE]

Implantable Scaffold for Meniscus Repair

Scaffold for meniscus repair
As the adult population ages, injuries to their knee joints—particularly torn menisci that were not repaired or [MORE]

Capturing a Single Cell with a Magnetic Microbot

Magnetic Microrobot
It may be a while before a surgery takes place within a capillary, but steps toward that possibility are [MORE]

Injectable Biopolymer for Diabetes Control

Diabetes
Duke University chemists have developed, at least experimentally, an extended release compound for treating Type 2 diabetes with a once [MORE]

3-D Printed Menisci

3D Printed Knee Implants
Natural menisci in the knee have firmer cartilage in the center and softer, on the outside, making [MORE]

Test Results for Lab-Grown Blood Vessels

Bioengineered Blood Vessels Duke
Bioengineers at Duke and Yale universities have created blood vessels in tissue culture by allowing human vascular [MORE]

The First “Brainet” with Live Brains

Organic Computer
From Duke University comes this astonishing statement: “Recently, we proposed that Brainets, i.e. networks formed by multiple animal brains, [MORE]

High Resolution 3D imaging Maps the Brain Stem

Radiologists at Duke University have produced an ultra high resolution map of the human brain stem that is a thousand [MORE]

Iontophoresis, Drug Delivery by Electrical Waves

Iontophoresis
If you recall electrophoresis experiments from your high school biology class, you’ve seen how ions in an electrical current can [MORE]

First Lab-Grown Contracting Muscle

Lab Grown Human Muscle
Bioengineers at Duke University took human stem cells that had progressed to being myogenic precursors and [MORE]

Biobanking an Economic Future

Cannon Towel Company
Kannapolis, NC saw itself as “the largest towel manufacturer in the world” until the Cannon Towel Company closed [MORE]

Self-Healing Engineered Muscles

Engineered Muscle
To quote directly from this piece:  “Living skeletal muscle that contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates quickly into mice, and [MORE]