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Who Nose—Researchers Engineer Tissue for Implantation
Posted on April 15, 2014 | No CommentsAccording to a study published in The Lancet, researchers have made new advances in tissue cell engineering leading them to successfully rebuild five noses with cartilage grown in the lab. […] -
Trailblazing Research Could Edit Undesirable Genes
Posted on April 7, 2014 | No CommentsHumans are complex multicellular, but recently researchers at MIT have cured a rare liver disease utilizing the defense system of simple cellular bacteria. A team of geneticists led by Daniel […] -
Stick-On Electronic Skin Tracks Vitals and Delivers Drugs
Posted on April 1, 2014 | No CommentsWearable electronic skin, commonly known as an e-tattoo, will someday store data and deliver drugs. Researchers published in Nature Nanotechnology a wearable patch that monitors muscle activity, stores data, and […] -
Big Things Come in Small Packages: Tiny Camera Expands Surgeon’s View
Posted on March 25, 2014 | No CommentsThe idea of going inside and traveling the human body seems like the farfetched idea of a mad scientist and his shrink ray. Professor F. Levent Degertekin and his team […] -
Screw You!—Silk-Based Screws Shows Promise in Fixing Bone
Posted on March 18, 2014 | No CommentsAccording to a study published in Nature Communications, a team led by Samuel Lin and David Kaplan describe bone screws made out of silk that can fasten bone as well […] -
A Flu Patch May be the Next Vogue Accessory
Posted on March 5, 2014 | No CommentsVaccines are used to improve your immune system and prevent serious, life-threatening diseases—albeit, there is a cohort of individuals who believe they are harmful, especially for children. This notion of […] -
The Invisible, Now Visible: New Technology Can Track Virus Sized Particles
Posted on February 25, 2014 | No CommentsResearchers at Princeton University describe a revolutionary three-dimensional method to capture the transient motion of virus like particles in real time. Consequently, this new method further elucidates the cellular uptake […] -
Researchers Propose X-Men like Regenerative Healing
Posted on February 19, 2014 | No CommentsJust yesterday, a team of Duke University biomedical engineers led by Charles Gersbach and Farshid Guilak published an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that describes a […] -
Bionic Hand Allows Man to ‘Feel’ Again
Posted on February 11, 2014 | No CommentsWhat was once science fiction is now reality. In the past week, a breakthrough in bionic prosthetic development was achieved by bioengineers in the lab of Silvestro Micera, according to […] -
The Cure to Cancer is in Our Blood
Posted on January 30, 2014 | No CommentsBiomedical engineers in the lab of Michael R. King at Cornell University describe a novel approach to target and kill cancer cells circulating in the bloodstream. Their study, “TRAIL-coated leukocytes […]