Digital Therapeutics
Perhaps you’ve seen the advertisements for the weight loss program “Noom.” It is a software product that tries to [MORE]
Pearse Keane working with AI on imaging
This piece describes more of what might be done than what is done in [MORE]
Pain assessment
“Please tell me, on this chart, your pain level from 1 to 10 cartoon faces.” Hippocrates could have done [MORE]
Hair follicle
Using a 3D printer to make plastic molds for skin tissue, bioengineers at Columbia University added a “cocktail of [MORE]
GI anatomy with appendix
Cancer of the appendix is rare—about 1:100,000 people; consequently, knowledge about how to treat these cases is [MORE]
DNA
How many genes can cause cancer? Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in England believe the number is more than [MORE]
Wearable technology
Engineers at the University of California at San Diego have designed a wearable monitor that tracks sleep, exercise and [MORE]
Bioengineered bone grafts
At the New York Stem Cell Foundation, researchers use an innovative process to produce bone grafts in small [MORE]
Computer-designed customized regenerative heart valve
For children born with defective heart valves, repair solutions are limited, mainly because a prosthesis has [MORE]
Breast Cancer Cell
Anti-cancer chemotherapy originally derived from chemical warfare studies in 1942. Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman discovered the effect [MORE]
Edible QR Code Medicine
QR (for Quick Release) codes are barcodes mainly used for keeping track of things. But researchers at [MORE]
3D Printer to Make Personal Drugs
In case you’ve been wondering for a decade or two how it would be possible [MORE]
Medications
This piece describes work at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stutgart, Germany, where chemical engineers have developed an improved method of [MORE]
Printing Medications on Skin Patches
University of Michigan engineers have developed a means of printing drugs onto skin patches, ingestible strips [MORE]