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DARPA’s Artificial Spleen

Prototype Artifical Spleen
While the military has a special need to control sepsis, civilian mortality in the US reaches 170,000 annually, [MORE]

Nanomaterial for Burn Dressing

Nanosheet Burn Dressing
The body is covered with bacterial species that can cause infections following a burn. Even the best burn [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]

Regenerating Islet Cells

Orgenesis
This piece is light on the details, but the basic idea is to extract liver cells from a Type 1 [MORE]

Vital Signs Monitoring at 2-Minute Intervals

Sensiuvitals
Satirist Dorothy Parker once said she pressed the hospital’s nurse call button whenever she wanted to be alone for an [MORE]

Bone Marrow Bioreactor

Platelet Bioreactor
With a “bone-marrow-on-a-chip” bioreactor, researchers at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital have been able to culture blood platelets, [MORE]

iPipet at Whitehead Institute

iPipet
It’s no revelation that mind-numbing work can lead to mistakes.  Pipetting is such a task, which explains why some labs [MORE]

Blood Test for Multiple Cancers

Blood-Test for Multiple Kinds of Cancer
Cancer researchers at the University of Bradford (UK) have shown that a single cell gel [MORE]

The Diabetes Chip

Diabetes Microchip
Obesity seems to account for the rise of Type 2 diabetes in children, while an increase in Type 1 [MORE]

Heart-Rate Sensors Built into Car Seats

Heart Rate Sensing Car Seat
To wearable, implantable and ingestible sensors, add another, seatable sensors.  Researchers at the Nottingham Trent University [MORE]

3-D Printed Bio-Bots

Biobots Use Skeletal Muscle
It might be hard to imagine a personal robot to clean your house, but it’s not farfetched [MORE]

3-D Printed Spinal Fusion Cage

3-D Printed Spine Cage
Damaged discs in the spine can cause vertebrae to fuse with resulting pain and dysfunction. Medicrea (Paris, [MORE]

Light-Fidelity (Li-Fi) Technology for Data Transmission

Li-Fi-Team
If you are a Comcast subscriber you might be enjoying Internet access at between 100 and 150 mbs.  Not long [MORE]

Vincent’s Ear

Vincent's Living Ear
With DNA from Vincent Van Gogh’s great, great nephew, a Dutch artist, collaborating with scientists at Harvard [MORE]