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Guiding Nerve Repairs

3D Printed Guide for Nerve Repair
Severed nerves sometimes can be sutured but materials scientists at University of Sheffield (UK) have [MORE]

Robotic Ankle with Ground Scanning Camera

Prosthetic Ankle
Engineers at Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI) have developed a prosthetic foot and ankle with a ground scanning camera [MORE]

While Genome Analysis in 90 Minutes; Whole Exomes in Less Than 60 minutes

Churchill Fast Human Genome Analysis
You may have seen that television commercial which tells us it took 13 years to do [MORE]

Smartphone Otoscope

Cellscope Home Otoscope
For some time now, it looked like medical kiosks with their digital instruments for examining patient’s ears, nose [MORE]

3-D Printing of Tracheal Cartilage

Makerbot 3D Printed Trachea Cartilage
The trachea, a windpipe that connects the lungs and throat, is a cartilage structure that can [MORE]

Nanobots Used in a Live Mouse for the First Time

Mirco-Motor Powered Nanobots Deliver Compounds
For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that nanobots can deliver therapeutic “cargoes” in living animals, [MORE]

Microcapsules for Slow Release Drug Delivery

Microcapsules Used to Deliver CNP for Osteoarthritis
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to foresee a medical tsunami coming with osteoarthritis [MORE]

Artificial Organs: “Pick, Place, Perfuse”

BioP3
If you have a mind’s-eye vision of automated circuit board assembly in the electronics industry, you can imagine how bioengineers [MORE]

Wearable, Wireless Blood Oxygen Sensor

Organic Blood Oxygen Sensor
Pulse oximetry’s history dates to 1860, proceeds to Karl Matthes’ ear oximeter in 1936, and comes to [MORE]

Artificial Retinas

Nanotube Film Optogenetics Retina Vision
In the retina, light stimulates receptor cells that chemically and electrically transmit that stimulation to the [MORE]

Microradios

Radio-on-a-Chip
A radio that receives, processes and transmits a signal while costing only pennies, would be a good thing. Such a [MORE]

Mouthpiece that Measures Potential Head Injury

Fitguard
According to CDC figures, there are some 3.8m sports related concussion injuries annually, mostly among youth players. But, in fact, [MORE]

Mind-Controlled Robotic Prosthetics

Robotic Prosthesis
Be sure to watch the video in this piece. It shows a man using a robotic arm which is [MORE]

Regenerating Muscle Tissue in situ

Muscle Tissue Regeneration in-situ
In another remarkable experiment, regenerative medicine researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, were able to implant [MORE]