Joshua Chen

A student at University of California, Berkeley studying bioengineering, Josh Chen is an avid researcher passionate about 3D printing, stem cells, neuroscience, biomaterials, nanotechnology and so much more. He hopes to take aspects in engineering and combine it with medicine to improve the quality of lives of others by creating low cost solutions to solve large-scale medical problems in the future. As Josh closely follows new therapies and technologies, he is inspired by the monumental work that scientists do each and every day. Josh has worked on various projects including a miRNA cancer research, high-throughput drug screening tests for Parkinson's disease, and currently working on substrate cellular interactions.

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January 6th, 2017 Meditation has been shown to be a helpful addition to many therapies that treat various psychosocial conditions as well as just everyday stress. For many of us with our busy lives, meditation is a practice that does not come naturally nor do we feel like we have the time to allocate to the activity. Muse, the meditation headband, has...
Neurology

August 4th, 2016 It has been a while since the concept of neural dust was first proposed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, the engineers have published multiple papers on the device. In fact, they have just reported data on device validation and neural activity recorded from the peripheral nervous system of...
Nanomedicine

February 11th, 2016 Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new calcium nanoparticle to stop the growth and metastisis of tumors. In order for cancer cells to grow and spread, they often lower their pH to escape the surrounding extracellular matrix. Using this information, a research team led by Avik Som, an MD/PhD student, and...
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January 28th, 2016 Ethicon is a company that is a part of the Johnson and Johnson family of companies. Their main focus is developing new technologies to advance innovation in surgery, whether it be technology to simplify suturing or in this case, a topical hemostat to stop problematic bleeding. After their recent FDA approval for liver surgery, we had...
Diagnostics

December 8th, 2015 Researchers at Penn State are using lithography and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-glass to fabricate a device that manipulates microparticles using pressure waves. As an example of its applications, the device can be used to manipulate single cells and assemble them in certain patterns for more efficient drug tests. Professor Tony Huang...
Pediatrics

December 2nd, 2015 Researchers at the Harvard's Wyss Institute have just published the results of a clinical study in which their vibrating mattress device successfully reduced infant apnea by 50%. This device was based on previous work done by a Wyss Institute Core Faculty member James Collins, Ph.D. His work showed that with a modest amount of random...
News

October 12th, 2015 Medgadget has been following the Wyss Institute's at Harvard development of new therapies and techniques to battle sepsis. At first, researchers tried using a combination of a special protein stuck to magnetic particles in an artificial spleen device to remove pathogens from blood. However, using magnetic nanoparticles comes with a few...
Cardiac Surgery

October 7th, 2015 Researchers at Boston Children's Hopsital, Wyss Institute at Harvard University, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Brigham and Women's Hospital have put their minds together to develop a new device that can deliver and apply an adhesive patch to repair holes in the heart. The new device they may add to the...
Nanomedicine

September 24th, 2015 A team at Stanford University, led by Professor James Swartz, recently reported a major advancement in nano-particle drug research. This research group used the Hepatitis B virus and re-engineered its capsid to become a virus-like particle (VLP). Many other researchers have tried to create VLPs, and more specifically tried to...
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September 9th, 2015 Researchers at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering presented a new wireless communication method at the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Milan, Italy. As wearables to track fitness become more and more popular, technology in biomedical sensors and devices also...
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September 4th, 2015 Researchers at UCSF have developed a method called DNA Programmed Assembly of Cells (DPAC) that brings us one step closer to being able to print fully functional living organs. The new approach includes incubating cells with small single stranded snippets of DNA that have been modified to attach to the cells' outer membranes. The...
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