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Issue 10, Volume 15, October 2014
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3-D printing custom-fitted, implantable devices
Materials Today
Using an inexpensive 3-D printer, biomedical engineers have developed a custom-fitted, implantable device with embedded sensors that could transform treatment and prediction of cardiac disorders.
Quest to grow human organs inside pigs in Japan
BBC News
Meiji University professor Hiroshi Nagashima is creating chimeric pigs, which carry genetic material from two different species, BBC News reports. It starts off by making what Nagashima calls ?a-pancreatic? embryos. Inside the white pig embryo, the gene that carries the instructions for developing the animal?s pancreas has been ?switched off.?
New glue may soon replace sutures ? Even in a beating heart
A new surgical adhesive is strong and flexible enough, and biocompatible enough, to be used to help patch heart defects, doing away with the need for sutures or stables.
Making medical devices antimicrobial with coatings
As many as one in 20 U.S. patients acquire infections during hospital stays, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But antimicrobial material coatings are enabling new infection-fighting strategies when it comes to medical devices.
Cancer-fighting nanobot announced
Korean researchers have developed nanobots that can detect and attack cancer cells, potentially providing a safer and more effective treatment than chemotherapy.
Researchers spin a yarn into a muscle
Physics World
Everyday polymer fibres used to create artificial muscles.
Off-the-shelf materials lead to self-healing polymers
Materials Today
Look out, super glue and paint thinner. Thanks to new dynamic materials developed at the University of Illinois, removable paint and self-healing plastics could soon be household products.
Acid-bath stem cell results called into question
New Scientist
Research claiming to have turned adult cells into the most versatile stem cells is now under investigation.
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12-15 January 2015 Lisbon, Portugal
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22-23 January 2015 Mumbai, India
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29-31 January 2015 Shanghai, China
Tissue Engineering & Bioprinting: Research to Commercialization
9-10 February 2015 Boston, USA
Clinical Applications of Stem Cells
26-27 February 2015 Singapore
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16-19 February 2016 Dubai, UAE
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This Month's Top Site
International Society for Stem Cell Research
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is an independent, nonprofit organization established to promote and foster the exchange and dissemination of information and ideas relating to stem cells, to encourage the general field of research involving stem cells and to promote professional and public education in all areas of stem cell research and application.
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Blind mice see the light after simple drug therapy
New Scientist
Progress has been made towards reversing age-related blindness with stem cells or gene therapy ? but a drug may offer a simpler, and safer, approach.
A simple new device seals a gunshot wound in 15 seconds
Popular Science
An Oregon startup has developed a pocket-size invention that uses tiny sponges to stop bleeding fast.
Man with 3-D printed pelvis walks again
The British press has lately been all a-buzz with the story of Craig Gerrand, MD, consultant orthopedic surgeon at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, UK) who used a 3-D printer to replace a large section of a man's pelvis.Craig Gerrand shows off a pelvis model.
Turning off the ?aging genes?
The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a computer algorithm that predicts which genes can be ?turned off? to create the same anti-aging effect as calorie restriction. The findings, reported in Nature Communications, could lead to the development of new drugs to treat aging.
Peanut allergy cured in children using immunotherapy
New Scientist
Potentially deadly peanut allergy has been cured in nine out of 10 recipients of a treatment that slowly escalates the peanut dose the body can tolerate.
New technique allows ?nanobiopsies? of living cells
The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) have developed a robotic ?nanobiopsy? system that can extract tiny samples from inside a living cell without killing it.
A 3D window into living cells, no dye required
News Bureau Illinois
University of Illinois researchers have developed a new imaging technique that needs no dyes or other chemicals, yet renders high-resolution, three-dimensional, quantitative imagery of cells and their internal structures using conventional microscopes and white light.
Chips that listen to bacteria
The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
A Columbia University research team has demonstrated that integrated circuit technology can be used for a study of signaling in bacterial colonies.
How squid might help reduce injections
Sometimes Mother Nature has a material solution that is superior to what a chemist might cook up. And that appears to be the case for Carnegie Mellon University's Chris Bettinger and Jay Whitacre, who found that cuttlefish ink provides just the right chemistry and nanostructure to power tiny, ingested electronic devices.
Antibiotic ?smart bomb? can target specific strains of bacteria
NC State News
North Carolina State University researchers have developed an antibiotic ?smart bomb? that can identify specific strains of bacteria and sever their DNA, eliminating the infection. The technique offers a potential approach to treat infections by multi-drug-resistant bacteria.
A light switch for pain
The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
A team of Bio-X researchers at Stanford has developed mice whose sensitivity to pain can be dialed up or down simply by shining light on their paws.
A future cochlear implant with no exterior hardware required
The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
A new low-power signal-processing chip that could lead to a cochlear implant that does not require external devices has been developed by researchers at MIT?s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL), together with physicians from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI).
Google?s smart contact lens project could allow diabetics to track glucose levels automatically
The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
To help people with diabetes as they try to keep their blood sugar levels under control, Google is testing a smart contact lens designed to measure glucose levels in tears.
Wearable glasses help surgeons view cancer cells in real time
The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
Washington University School of Medicine scientists have developed a wearable display to help surgeons visualize cancer cells, which glow blue when viewed through the eyewear.
A Marine with a prosthetic hand controlled by his own muscles
Popular Science
Staff Sergeant James Sides lost his right arm in an IED explosion in Afghanistan. Now he's the first patient in an FDA trial testing an implantable, muscle-connected controller for prosthetics.
How a double-amputee engineer developed cutting-edge bionic limbs
Looking like they could have been assembled from spare parts for the latest RoboCop, the most advanced lower-leg prosthetics available today are arguably made by BiOM (Bedford, MA). The company's powered artificial ankle is unlike any other commercially available ankle device. The BiOM Ankle System replaces the function of lost muscle and tendon anatomy, stiffening and powering the prosthetic ankle.
E-whiskers: highly sensitive tactile sensors for robotics and other applications
Berkeley Lab
Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have created tactile sensors from composite films of carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticles similar to the highly sensitive whiskers of cats and rats.
The secrets of harnessing electricity from a beating heart
It seems pretty logical: Hearts beat, movement is energy, and electricity produced off the movement could power an implantable medical device such a pacemaker. But over the decades, there has never been an energy-harvesting strategy that really met medical device designers? needs?until now.
Smartphone EEG to diagnose epilepsy in poor nations
New Scientist
A cheap and light version of EEG, run using software on a smartphone, could diagnose epilepsy in places where the disease often goes dangerously untreated.
Everything you need to know about uterus transplants
Popular Science
Who?s getting them, and why scientists are in a race to do it first.
3 big challenges for medical equipment makers
As medical device makers face unprecedented opportunities and challenges created by a rapidly-evolving market, they need to consider the following important issues.
Getting an edge on super-robust surgical blades
Hutchinson Technology has counted super-precise photochemical etching as a core technology in its evolution over the decades into a $250 million-a-year maker of computer disk suspensions.Now Hutchinson (Hutchinson, MN) is preparing to use the same technology to produce thousands of tiny stainless-steel surgical blades less than an inch in length, about the same size as the disk suspensions that have been Hutchinson?s bread and butter.
Bio-inspiration for growing grapheme
Materials Today
Graphene, a form of two-dimensional carbon, has many desirable properties that make it a promising material in many applications. However, its production especially for high-end electronics such as touch screens faces many challenges. This may soon change with a fresh approach developed by NUS researchers that mimics nature.
An alternative way to allocate science funding
Materials Today
Researchers in the United States have suggested an alternative way to allocate science funding. The method depends on a collective distribution of funding by the scientific community, requires only a fraction of the costs associated with the traditional peer review of grant proposals and, according to the authors, may yield comparable or even better results.
Duck with disability gets 3-D printed prosthetic foot
Apparent victims of overbooking, 5-month-old Dudley the duck and his siblings were berthed in a cage at the K9-1-1 Animal and Rescue Shelter (Sicamous, BC, Canada) with some chickens. One of the chickens attacked the ducks and, in a fight that left his siblings dead, Dudley?s leg was seriously injured and had to be amputated. Dudley was left with only a stump.
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