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UBC breakthrough opens door to $100 ultrasound machine

Sep 17, 2018 (SPX)

Conventional ultrasound scanners use piezoelectric crystals to create images of the inside of the body and send them to a computer to create sonograms. Research...

Artificial synaptic device simulating the function of human brain

Sep 13, 2018 (SPX)

Synapses are where axons and dendrites meet so that neurons in the human brain can send and receive nerve signals; there are known to be hundreds of trillions o...

Biosensor allows real-time oxygen monitoring for 'organs-on-a-chip'

Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)

The organ-on-a-chip concept has garnered significant attention from researchers for about a decade. The idea is to create small-scale, biological structures tha...

Bioengineers use magnetic force to manage pain

Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)

"Much of mainstream modern medicine centers on using pharmaceuticals to make chemical or molecular changes inside the body to treat disease," said Dino Di Carlo...

UTMB researchers successfully transplant bioengineered lung

Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)

In 2014, Joan Nichols and Joaquin Cortiella from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston were the first research team to successfully bioengineer hu...

Stem cell may explain why dogs have such a good sense of smell

Aug 10, 2018 (UPI)

The discovery of a new stem cell could help scientists better understand how and why sense of smell varies widely across the animal kingdom. Scientists know the...

Getting more out of microbes: studying shewanella in microgravity

Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)

An experiment called Investigating the Physiology and Fitness of an Exoelectrogenic Organism under Microgravity Conditions (Micro-12) was delivered to the orbit...

Nanofiber-based wound dressings induce production of antimicrobial peptide

Jul 18, 2018 (SPX)

The findings by Oregon State University researchers and other collaborators, published Wednesday in Nanomedicine, are important because SSIs are the most common...

Smart bandages designed to monitor and tailor treatment for chronic wounds

Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)

Chronic skin wounds from burns, diabetes, and other medical conditions can overwhelm the regenerative capabilities of the skin and often lead to persistent infe...

MyotonPRO tests muscle tension and stiffness

Jul 11, 2018 (ESA)

The device is being used on the International Space Station by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst. Part of the Myotones experiment, Alexander is using the smart-phon...

Versatile ultrasound system could transform how doctors use medical imaging

Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)

In The Optical Society (OSA) journal Biomedical Optics Express, researchers demonstrate for the first time the use of an all-optical ultrasound imager for video...

Low-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking

Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)

Now MIT engineers have developed a simple, low-cost, passive prosthetic foot that they can tailor to an individual. Given a user's body weight and size, the res...

In Togo, hi-tech orthopaedic care goes through crucial test

Jun 23, 2018 (AFP)

Thanks to new 3D technology, he may be able to walk normally within a few months. "The child walks on his toes so I'm scanning his leg so we can make him an ort...

Scientists use light to create new tissue shapes

Jun 18, 2018 (UPI)

Morphogenesis, the shifting of tissue shapes in an embryo, is essential to healthy development. Using optogenetics, scientists are not only able to better under...

Wireless system can power devices inside the body

Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)

The implants are powered by radio frequency waves, which can safely pass through human tissues. In tests in animals, the researchers showed that the waves can p...

ICE Cubes space research service open for business

Jun 07, 2018 (ESA)

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold installed the ice-box-sized facility in the European Physiology Module in the Columbus laboratory. ICE Cubes gets its power, tempera...

Scientists develop material that could regenerate dental enamel

Jun 05, 2018 (SPX)

Enamel, located on the outer part of our teeth, is the hardest tissue in the body and enables our teeth to function for a large part of our lifetime despite bit...

Cell-like nanorobots clear bacteria and toxins from blood

Jun 05, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers built the nanorobots by coating gold nanowires with a hybrid of platelet and red blood cell membranes. This hybrid cell membrane coating allows the ...

Flexible organic electronics mimic biological mechanosensory nerves

Jun 05, 2018 (SPX)

Compared to conventional digital computers, biological nervous system is powerful for real-world problems, such as visual image processing, voice recognition, t...

Synthetic 'tissues' build themselves

Jun 05, 2018 (SPX)

Now, in a study published May 31, 2018 in Science, researchers have demonstrated the ability to program groups of individual cells to self-organize into multi-l...