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Necessary Elements for Lab-Produced Organs

Lab-Produced Trachea
Regenerative medicine scientists at Wake Forest University and North Carolina State University have identified five essentials to overcome [MORE]

Bionic Pancreas

Diabetes Bionic Pancreas
Edward Damiano, PhD, a biomedical engineer at Boston University, developed this artificial pancreas for his son who suffers [MORE]

3-D Printing Models Chest Cavity for Unusual Lung Transplant

Living Donor Lung Transplant – 3D Printing
In an astonishingly complicated procedure, surgeons at Kyoto University Hospital used a 3-D [MORE]

Lab-Grown Blood Moving Toward Clinical Trials

O-Negative Blood
Sometime in 2016, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service expects to begin clinical trials of lab-grown Type O-negative [MORE]

Android Wear, Apple’s Healthbook and Samsung’s Virtual “White Cane”

iWatch
People have always been anxious about their health status to some degree, but today that has become a retail healthcare [MORE]

Cologuard Test for Colon Cancer

Cologuard
Exact Sciences, Inc. (Madison, WS) has developed a DNA fecal test for detecting stage I-III cancers that is considerable more [MORE]

3-D Printed Pelvis Implanted

3-D Printed Pelvis
While personalized medicine usually refers to molecular marvels, surgery claims priority in that genre—separating the person from the [MORE]

Nanotech Wave in Healthcare

Nano Batteries
This piece mistakenly attributes “nanotechnology” to American engineer Eric Drexler who popularized it in his 1992 book, Nanosystems. Drexler [MORE]

Autofocusing Intraocular Implant

Elenza Lens
Owners of Canon SLR cameras are familiar with the EOS concept—i.e. eye operating system for autofocusing.  Now, something like [MORE]

3-D Printed EEG Headset

3-D Printed EEG Headset
Here’s a low cost portal for electroencephalograph — a 3-D printed harness with correctly positioned brain wave [MORE]

Minimally-Invasive Mitral Valve Replacement

Neovasc-Tiara Mitral Valve
Since 2002, heart surgeons have been able to use a catheter in performing aortic valve repair, and since [MORE]

Anticancer Bacteriobots

Bacteriobots
Here’s a new example of multimodalities in anticancer strategy: South Korean scientists have inserted nanocapsules containing anticancer drugs into genetically [MORE]

Medical Nanotech Review

Flexible Electronic Around Hair
Here is a convenient review of nanotech innovations for medicine, including developments in contact lenses, heart [MORE]

IBM’s Microfluidics Device for Oncologists

Microfluidics diagnostic chip
IBM’s search for new markets, after disappointing earnings in its more traditional fields, has turned [MORE]