Category: New products
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Kidney Organoids Created with Working Blood Vessels
Bioengineering labs at Harvard University and affiliated hospitals used stem cells and three-dimensional printing to create kidney tissue chips with blood vessel networks.
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Infographic – What is Crispr?
Even as Crispr has gained commercial traction and public attention, there’s still a need for a good illustrated introduction to the technique.
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Capsule Designed to Inject Insulin in Stomach Wall
A biomedical engineering team created a capsule that in animal tests releases a tiny needle delivering an insulin dose to the stomach lining, equivalent to conventional insulin injections.
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Large Molecule Library Enables On-Demand Drug Discovery
A large-scale public drug molecule library is shown with computational modeling to accurately identify on-demand new compounds that bind completely to therapy targets.
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Univ. Spin-Off Developing High-Nutrition Corn
A company spun-off from a university agriculture research lab is developing a variety of corn with more vitamin A and other nutrients missing from most other types.
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Brain Tissue Model Devised for Cancer Drug Testing
A three-dimensional brain tissue model, including a patient’s tumor cells, shows in lab tests an ability to test current and experimental cancer drugs.
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Natural Enemy Shown Effective Against Staph Bacteria
A clinical trial shows adding a treatment for drug-resistant infections based on the bacteria’s natural enemies kills more Staphylococcus aureus bacteria than standard antibiotics alone.
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Trial Assesses MRI-Guided Radiation Cancer Therapy
A clinical trial is underway to evaluate radiation therapy guided by magnetic resonance imaging, to help encourage its adoption in clinical cancer practice.
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Trial Underway Testing Placenta Grafts for Foot Ulcers
A clinical trial testing tissue grafts derived from human placenta tissue to treat diabetic foot ulcers enrolled its first patient.
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Fast 3-D Method Shapes Objects With Light
A new three-dimensional printing method harnesses rotating light waves to quickly produce objects at miniature scale on demand with common polymers and hydrogels.