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Mini Robot Fills Esophageal Gap

Pierre Dupont and other researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital developed a small implantable robot that could help save babies born with esophageal atresia and other diseases.

John Kosowatz
April 09, 2018
New Drug Program Takes DNA Damage Response Treatment to Next Step

A new nuclease inhibitor drug program could lead to the commercialization of novel DNA damage response (DDR) treatments for female breast, ovarian, and other types of cancers.

Jeff O'Heir
April 09, 2018
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Mini Guts Could Improve Personalized Therapy Production

Researchers use minibioreactor arrays to study the gut, coupling them with high-throughput screening techniques to examine the effects of different therapies on digestive system diseases. Reported by AABME.org

Melissa Lutz Blouin
April 02, 2018
Mini Guts Could Improve Personalized Therapy Production

Researchers use minibioreactor arrays to study the gut, coupling them with high-throughput screening techniques to examine the effects of different therapies on digestive system diseases. Reported by AABME.org

Melissa Lutz Blouin
April 02, 2018
3D Printing Better Soft Robots

University of Illinois researchers combine biological muscles with structural frames that could open up possibilities for new types of robots and prosthesis. Reported by AABME.org.

Kayt Sukel
April 02, 2018
Breaking Down Virus Shells to Improve Therapy Deliveries

Rice University researchers have found that breaking down a virus’s tough outer shell creates nanoparticles that could improve the delivery of chemotherapies and other medicines to diseased cells.

John Tibbetts
March 26, 2018
Video: Interfacing Humans and Machines

Prosthetics are moving beyond simple mechanical functions and are becoming part of the human body itself.

March 19, 2018
Soft Robots Transform Medicine from the Inside Out

Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles bioengineering department developed a tissue-based soft robot that resembles a stingray. The research is being used to transform regenerative medicine, as well as diagnostics and robotic systems that could function within the human body.

Tim Sprinkle
March 19, 2018
Augmented Reality Gives New Sight to Bioengineers, Doctors

More bioengineers are taking a serious look at how virtual and augmented reality tools, like Microsoft's HoloLens can expand their design capabilities, especially for medical imaging and computation, simulations, and implants and devices.

Mark Crawford
March 12, 2018
Robotic Exoskeleton Helps Children with Scoliosis

A new exoskeleton spine brace promises to offer children and teens with scoliosis more mobility and comfort than traditional braces.

John Tibbetts
February 20, 2018
Video: Electromyographically Actuated Bionic Limbs

Albert Manero, President of Limbitless Solutions, describes the groundbreaking work he and his team are doing in the fields of prosthetics and bionics, work that includes a brush with fame in the form of a certain Marvel superhero.

February 20, 2018
Printing Organs That Give

To a surgeon, a useful model organ needs to be more than a rigid plastic curio. It needs the feel of the real thing if it’s to be any good for practice. Now researchers have created a 3D printed organ with the elasticity of flesh and blood.

Michael Abrams
February 12, 2018
A Surgical Robot with Big Ambitions

Based on the mechanism that manipulates professional flight simulators, a new robot could help surgeons realign the largest bone in the body.

Menaka Wilhelm
February 05, 2018
A More Natural Approach to Passive Ankle Prostheses

A research lab has found an innovative way to close the gap between low-tech passive ankle prostheses and high-tech robotics.

Cassie Kelly
January 29, 2018