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      Plant-Based Soft Medical Robots

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      Magnetic Dressing Improves Diabetic Wound Healing

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      Eko’s Newest CORE 500 Stethoscope: A Review

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      Shear-Thinning Biomaterial for Embolic Applications: Interview with Upma Sharma, President and CEO of Arsenal Medical

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      Ultrasound-Equipped Bra Monitors for Breast Cancer

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      Portable and Radiation-Free Imaging with Magnetic Nanoparticles

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      Imaging Technique Reveals Living Brain Tissue in its Complexity

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      Eko’s Newest CORE 500 Stethoscope: A Review

      Eko’s Newest CORE 500 Stethoscope: A Review

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      Shear-Thinning Biomaterial for Embolic Applications: Interview with Upma Sharma, President and CEO of Arsenal Medical

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      Ultrasound-Equipped Bra Monitors for Breast Cancer

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      Magnetic Dressing Improves Diabetic Wound Healing

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      Sensor Monitors Transplanted Organs for Signs of Rejection

      Refillable Device for Drug Delivery Past the Blood-Brain Barrier: Interview with Mike Maglin, CEO at CraniUS

      Refillable Device for Drug Delivery Past the Blood-Brain Barrier: Interview with Mike Maglin, CEO at CraniUS

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      Nanorobots Release Reactive Oxygen Species to Kill Fungal Biofilms

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      Bottlebrush Nanoparticles Deliver Immunostimulatory Drugs

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      Nanoparticles Deliver mRNA Therapy to the Lungs

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      Nanoparticles Get Lymphatic Vessels Pumping

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      Wearable Can Take Multiple Sweat Samples

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      Wound Dressing Detects Infection, Changes Color

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      Device Measures Hemoglobin More Accurately in Dark Skin

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      Fingertip Sensor Measures Lithium Levels in Sweat

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      Glasses Provide Audible Prompts for Blind Wearers

      A Wearable to Manage Parkinson’s Motor Symptoms: Interview with Lucy Jung, CEO at Charco Neurotech

      A Wearable to Manage Parkinson’s Motor Symptoms: Interview with Lucy Jung, CEO at Charco Neurotech

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Virulence Factor Found for 1918 Flu News

Virulence Factor Found for 1918 Flu

January 2nd, 2009 The 1918 "Spanish Flu" pandemic killed between 20 and 50 million people worldwide. Many of the dead were young and healthy, an unusual pattern for influenza related deaths. As well, victims often succumbed quickly to this Influenza A (H1N1) infection. Scientists have been working "feverishly" to identify factors involved in its lethality...
Drug Delivery System Hits Gold Nanomedicine

Drug Delivery System Hits Gold

January 2nd, 2009 MIT researchers are reporting on a new multi-drug delivery system based on an interesting type of gold nanoparticles. Drugs attached to their surface are released when the gold nanoparticles dissolve after exposure to a specific frequency of infrared light. The infrared frequency is related to the nanoparticle shape and allows for the...
Computer Modeling Helping To Fight Malaria Public Health

Computer Modeling Helping To Fight Malaria

December 30th, 2008 MIT researchers have developed a computer modeling technique to assist in the fight against malaria, a disease which still accounts for 1/3rd of all deaths in children under 5 worldwide. The software analyzes numerous environment factors involved in malaria spread and can help predict what various interventions will have. Targeting...
Manufacturing Antibodies Goes Sugar Free News

Manufacturing Antibodies Goes Sugar Free

December 30th, 2008 Who would have thought there would be a reason to make sugar-free antibodies? Well, researches at MIT did! It has long been thought that a particular sugar attachment was required for antibody function but new research shows this to not be the case. This opens the door to mass producing therapeutic antibodies by bacteria or fungi. MIT...
Christmas Cheer May Improve Brain Performance! News

Christmas Cheer May Improve Brain Performance!

December 30th, 2008 At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year - Thomas Tusser Do your New Year's resolutions include losing weight and cutting back on a few of your indulgences? May not be a bad idea, but just in case you need another rationalization during the holidays, researchers at Oxford have released a study showing...
"Evocative Gene-Environment Correlation": Do Geeks Result From Decreased Expression of a "Rule-Breaking" Gene? News

"Evocative Gene-Environment Correlation": Do Geeks Result From Decreased Expression of a "Rule-Breaking" Gene?

December 30th, 2008 Could the promising world of gene-therapy even make geeks more popular? A study released by behavioral geneticist S. Alexandra Burt of the Michigan State University demonstrates that the behavioral expression of a "rule-breaking" gene is linked to popularity in adolescents. So that's why the "bad-guys" got all the babes A groundbreaking...
MammaPrint Identifies Low Risk HER2+ Breast Cancer Oncology

MammaPrint Identifies Low Risk HER2+ Breast Cancer

December 15th, 2008 We have covered Agendia's MammaPrint® DNA microarray test in a February 2007 post. The latest news is that this gene expression profiling test has shown its utility in identifying a subgroup of patients with a good clinical outcome in HER2+ early breast cancer. The identified subtype of patients has an approximate 90% ten year...
SmartHand: Thought Controlled Prosthesis That Patients Feel Neurology

SmartHand: Thought Controlled Prosthesis That Patients Feel

December 15th, 2008 The SmartHand is a European Union collaborative project to produce a functional artificial hand that looks and feels to a patient like a real hand. In the latest issue of Brain, scientists from Karolinska Institutet and Malmö University Hospital in Sweden describe the successful induction of the "rubber hand illusion" in amputees,...
Autoimmunity and Sex...Why the Disparity? News

Autoimmunity and Sex...Why the Disparity?

December 15th, 2008 It is well known that women are at a much higher risk of developing many autoimmune disorders. Why the disparity? A study released in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has identified a molecular gender difference, regulated by androgens, which appears to be involved in a signaling cascade regulating leukotriene...
Ophthalmology

FDA Approves Compassionate Use of Investigational Treatment for AMD

The FDA has given compassionate approval to use NeoVista's Epiretinal Brachytherapy (a procedure that is presently in Phase III studies) to treat a woman's wet-AMD (age-related macular degeneration). The company hopes that its NeoVista Epi-Rad 90™ Ophthalmic System one day will become a therapeutic option for patients with wet-AMD....
US Navy to Trial Hemopure Stabilized Hemoglobin Critical Care

US Navy to Trial Hemopure Stabilized Hemoglobin

December 11th, 2008 U.S. Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) has submitted to the FDA a revised investigational new drug application to begin a clinical trial of Hemopure® , a stabilized hemoglobin, for pre-hospital battlefield treatment of trauma patients. The study is entitled "Operation Restore Effective Survival in Shock" (Op RESUS). The drug, a...
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A Wearable to Manage Parkinson’s Motor Symptoms: Interview with Lucy Jung, CEO at Charco Neurotech

A Wearable to Manage Parkinson’s Motor Symptoms: Interview with Lucy Jung, CEO at Charco Neurotech

Eko’s Newest CORE 500 Stethoscope: A Review

Eko’s Newest CORE 500 Stethoscope: A Review

Shear-Thinning Biomaterial for Embolic Applications: Interview with Upma Sharma, President and CEO of Arsenal Medical

Shear-Thinning Biomaterial for Embolic Applications: Interview with Upma Sharma, President and CEO of Arsenal Medical

Refillable Device for Drug Delivery Past the Blood-Brain Barrier: Interview with Mike Maglin, CEO at CraniUS

Refillable Device for Drug Delivery Past the Blood-Brain Barrier: Interview with Mike Maglin, CEO at CraniUS

UV-Free Air Decontamination: Interview with Sorel Rothschild, VP at Quantum Innovations

UV-Free Air Decontamination: Interview with Sorel Rothschild, VP at Quantum Innovations

EarliPoint Evaluation System for ASD Diagnosis: Interview with Tom Ressemann, CEO of EarliTec Dx

EarliPoint Evaluation System for ASD Diagnosis: Interview with Tom Ressemann, CEO of EarliTec Dx

Visually Guided Uterine Biopsies in Physician’s Office: Interview with Allison London Brown, CEO of LUMINELLE

Visually Guided Uterine Biopsies in Physician’s Office: Interview with Allison London Brown, CEO of LUMINELLE

AI-Powered Pain Relief: Interview with Claire Smith, VP at Nevro

AI-Powered Pain Relief: Interview with Claire Smith, VP at Nevro

MISHA Knee Shock Absorber: Interview with Anton Clifford, CEO of Moximed

MISHA Knee Shock Absorber: Interview with Anton Clifford, CEO of Moximed

Shelf-Stable Breast Milk Powder: Interview with Dr. Vansh Langer, CEO at BBy

Shelf-Stable Breast Milk Powder: Interview with Dr. Vansh Langer, CEO at BBy

"We Are Electric" by Sally Adee: Medgadget Interviews the Author

"We Are Electric" by Sally Adee: Medgadget Interviews the Author

Automated Computer Assistant for Kidney Transplant Rejection Diagnostics: Interview with Study Authors

Automated Computer Assistant for Kidney Transplant Rejection Diagnostics: Interview with Study Authors

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