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Sound Sensitive On Demand Pain Relief
18/08/2017
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Imagine a small hand-held device that could be directly placed on the skin and with the press of a button localized pain would vanish. Sound like something you would see in an episode of Star Trek, right? If a team of investigators, led by scientists...
Fiber Lasers: 2 μm thulium fiber laser offers precision surgery promise
18/08/2017
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Thulium (Tm3+)-doped fiber lasers are of increasing interest for life science applications for two key reasons: first, their near-infrared (near-IR) output at 1940 nm falls within the broad 1900 nm absorption band of liquid water, enabling a host of ...
Biomedical Engineering Advances Improve MRI Sensitivity
18/08/2017
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most common and useful medical imaging modalities used in hospitals today. Unlike an X-Ray, an MRI allows physicians and researchers to image soft tissue in the body, allowing them to probe for anatomica...
Breakthrough device heals organs with a single touch
08/08/2017
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Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State's College of Engineering have developed a new technology, Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), that can generate any cell type of interest for treatment within the patient's own ...
Researchers make biomedical adhesive inspired by slug slime
08/08/2017
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Being able to repair internal tissue with adhesives would be incredibly useful in the medical world. As of now, those kinds of repairs are limited to sutures and staples, which are far from ideal and while external wounds can be closed with certain g...
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Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions
10/03/2016
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The CRISPR-Cas9 tool makes genetic engineering cheap and easy, making it a powerful tool that has the potential to be abused. Video provided by NewsyT...