Stanley Darma

Stanley is an MD and PhD candidate at the Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research field is in ophthalmology and optical coherence tomography, making amazing pictures of and performing precise measurements in the human retina everyday.

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Medicine

February 6th, 2013 The skin is a great site to access the systemic circulation of the human body. And that’s exactly where we want the effect of vaccinations to occur. Researchers at King’s College London have showed a way to deliver dried live vaccine to the skin with a microneedle assay and thereby enable immune cells in the skin to set off an immune...
News

November 28th, 2012 Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a device with which congenitally blind people will be able to see again to some extent. This “sonar vision” device transforms images into sound, enabling the blind to perceive visual information via the ear. Results of the conducted study using the technology were...
News

November 28th, 2012 Why do we still use dogs to sniff out dangerous explosives at the airport? That's because even with all the modern science and technology available, man's best friend continues to be the best at it.  Things may change, as researchers at the University of California in Santa Barbara have now developed a device that may rival a dog’s...
Diagnostics

November 27th, 2012 Researchers from the Aarhus University in Denmark have developed a new test to diagnose malaria infections very quickly and with a high sensitivity. The test measures the activity of the enzyme topoisomerase I from the Plasmodium parasite, which causes malaria. The new method is based on a technology which the researchers call Rolling...
News

November 27th, 2012 If you were to ask a child: “What do you prefer: a needle or a patch?”, odds are that the kid won’t go for the needle. So, why then perform measles vaccinations via a needle? Well, because no other method is available. But, it looks like this is about to change. Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology has led to the...
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November 15th, 2012 Bioengineers at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have come up with a compressible gel-based sponge which can be delivered into the human body via injection. The material can be made into any shape and loaded with drugs or stem cells, before being compressed and injected. After injection it will form its original...
Surgery

September 28th, 2012 Imagine the best and most skilled surgeons in the world performing microsurgery. And then imagine there’s a new surgical tool in town to make even the best microsurgeons even better. Especially in microsurgery a steady hand is of utmost importance. But even the best surgeons have tiny, almost unnoticeable hand tremors. That’s human...
Medicine

September 17th, 2012 Researchers at MIT have made it possible to enhance skin permeability using ultrasound waves. The technology seems promising for future transdermal drug delivery without the need of using needles. The research results were published in the Journal of Controlled Release. This new technology makes use of ultrasound waves with two...
Ophthalmology

August 31st, 2012 At Bionic Vision Australia, a consortium of researchers working on an eye prosthesis, the implantation of a bionic eye with 24 electrodes has turned out to be a success. A 54 year old female patient with vision loss due to retinitis pigmentosa had received the retinal implant earlier this year in May. Last month the implant was switched...
Neurology

August 29th, 2012 Researchers at Rice University and the University of Houston are currently developing a new  way to help stroke survivors to recover. They're using a brain-machine interface coupled with a robotic system to improve upper-limb rehabilitation. The robot device, called MAHI-EXO II, consists of an exoskeleton which is controlled by means of...
Public Health

July 20th, 2012 How to fight the transmission of malaria? This has always been an important research question in the fight against the disease. Now researchers of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in Baltimore have found a new way to prevent the spread of malaria. By genetically modifying a bacterium found in the midgut of the mosquitoes,...
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