See-Through Sensors
Among graphene’s remarkable properties are its electrical conductivity and capability of fabricating extremely thin structures. Knowing this, biomedical engineers [MORE]
Printing Custom Medical Implants
“Most of today’s antibiotic implants, or “beads,” are made out of bone cements which have to be [MORE]
Artifical Liver
“A novel, human cell-based, bioartificial liver support system is being tested for patients with acute liver failure, often a [MORE]
Graphene Oxide Sheets
“Researchers from Monash University [Melbourne, Australia] have discovered that graphene oxide sheets can change structure to become liquid [MORE]
Implant Monitor Blood pH
“A team of bioengineers from ETH Zurich’s Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) in Basel [MORE]
Bioink Droplets Show Live Cells
This piece has an additive point of interest about 3-D bioprinting and a citation at the [MORE]
Brain-on-a-Chip
About half of all traumatic brain injuries involve damage to neural axons, and result in a range of [MORE]
Prototype Injectable Foam for Hemorrahge
Neither tourniquets nor gauze pads are very effective in stopping bleeding from deep wounds in [MORE]
Optical Coherence Tomography
Using optical coherence tomography—aka “optical ultrasound,” a biomedical researcher at Texas A&M University was able to insert a [MORE]
Implantable Neural Device
One the one hand are 270,000 traumatic brain injuries in the American military since 2000, and on [MORE]
Professor Won Do Heo Develops Light Sensitive Protein
You’ll have to go to the Nature Communications article cited in this piece [MORE]
Restored Functional Cornea from Stem Cells
Diseases and injury of the cornea are significant causes of blindness and usually treated with [MORE]
Optogenetics
“MIT engineers have now developed the first light-sensitive molecule that enables neurons to be silenced noninvasively, using a light source [MORE]
Regenerating Damaged Skeletal Muscle
Researchers at the Regenerative Biomaterials Lab of the University of Arkansas have developed means for holding living [MORE]