Kristie Yang

Kristie graduated from Duke University with a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering. Last year, she worked in Switzerland as a Whitaker Research Fellow developing flexible, stretchable intracortical probes. She is interested in the clinical applications of biomedical technology. She enjoys trail running, hiking, diving, and eating ice cream.

Author's Posts

News

February 5th, 2016 Photochemical tissue bonding (PTB) is a light-based method to repair tissues and is an alternative to traditional sutures and staples used to close wounds. Unlike the latter, PTB does not cause inflammation and scarring at the repair site. PTB works by applying light-sensitive Rose Bengal dye to the exposed tissue. When the dye is...
Neurosurgery

January 13th, 2016 Neurosurgeons have been performing fluorescence-guided brain tumor removal as part of FDA clinical trials testing the safety and efficacy of the drug 5-ALA since 2011. The drug, which is clinically approved for use in Europe, causes brain tumors to fluoresce. Glioma cells selectively uptake the drug, which contains the natural...
News

December 11th, 2015   Researchers at Columbia University have engineered an in vitro system that uses adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the biological cellular energy carrier, to power an integrated circuit. In the native setting, Na+/K+ ATPases hydrolyze ATP to generate energy and to maintain the cellular resting membrane potential. Researchers used...
News

November 24th, 2015 Researchers at MIT are developing an ingestible electronic sensor that can measure a patient’s heart rate and breathing rate. Current methods to monitor vital signs require physical contact between the device and the skin or at least constant nearby presence to the patient. However, this can result in skin irritation and pain,...
Diagnostics

November 1st, 2015 The Rogers Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have expanded on their flexible skin sensor technology to measure blood flow in vessels 1 to 2 millimeters under the skin. Current methods to measure blood flow in a clinical setting rely on optical imaging techniques that require patients to remain still for the...
Diagnostics

October 9th, 2015 New on-chip technology enabled researchers from UC Santa Cruz and Brigham Young University to detect multiple strains of the flu virus on a single chip. The chip is composed of microfluidic channels and an intersecting optical waveguide. To detect specific biomarkers, the optofluidic chip relies on wavelength-division multiplexing...
News

October 1st, 2015 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have integrated fiber optic sensors into a three-fingered robotic hand yielding a tactile sensing robotic hand. The underlying hand structure is composed of 3-D printed plastic and each finger has three distinct parts imitating the three phalanges of a human finger. The stiff 3D matrix is covered...
Diagnostics

September 4th, 2015 Micronutrient deficiencies occur in limited resource environments, which in-turn presents a challenge in identifying afflicted populations in need of nutritional intervention. Researchers at Georgia Tech have published about a proof-of-concept biosensor technology that measures zinc levels in blood samples sans external laboratory...
© Medgadget, Inc. All rights reserved. | The Medical Revolution Will Be Blogged.