A new device from scientists at McGill University’s Department of Bioengineering allows early and quick detection of life-threatening bacteria.
Cell therapy manufacturing is a new discipline where production of adult and pluripotent stem cell types are required for cell therapies. Several hundreds of clinical trials with adult mesenchymal stem cells for therapies such as auto-immune diseases, bone, cartilage repair and stroke are looking promising. For the pluripotent stem cell therapies, retinal pigment epithelial cells, pancreatic islet progenitors and neurons are being applied for treating blindness, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease in early stage clinical trials.
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The first viable prototype of an artificial lung offers new hope for the more than one thousand people awaiting lung transplants across the United States.
A low-cost haptic needle simulator aims to train young minds without expensive equipment.
Barcoded nanoparticles deliver nucleic acids to treat cancer, viral infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.
A new approach to finding drug candidates for fighting cancers can drastically cut the time and money needed to evaluate millions of them.
Surgeons could torch tumors faster and more accurately with help from a new thermal imaging system.
Researchers have improved the ability of cancer-killing T-cells to target pancreatic tumors rather than healthy tissue by engineering the cells to produce more receptors.
A new process of running sound waves through blood samples could make cancer diagnosis and treatment quicker and easier.
For the first time in medical history, a team of researchers has grown and sustained blood stem cells in a bioreactor. The resulting cells could replace painful bone marrow transplants used to produce hematopoietic cells in patients suffering from leukemia and other blood cancers.
Researchers looking through the transparent wings of a longtail glasswing butterfly found inspiration to create nanostructures coatings for an implantable eye pressure sensor that could help patients with glaucoma retain their sight.
A new approach to transplanting insulin-producing islet cells offers new hope for diabetics who cannot manage their disease with regular insulin injections.
MIT researchers developed a quantitative framework that enables them to replicate biomechanical performance of prosthetic feet, a new approach that could lead to inexpensive mass-production of the prosthesis.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia created a ‘smart stent’ empowered with sensors that can monitor and provide real-time feedback on blood flow to help decrease restenosis or the narrowing of arteries.