Wearable Tech Diagnoses Lyme Disease
Wearable technology has potential to help doctors diagnose a wide range of medical conditions quickly, thanks to the wide range of physiological data that the devices can collect. There is…
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Artificial Spider Silk Spinner Capable of Producing Kilometer-Long Threads
Spider silk has a myriad of potential uses, if only spiders could be convinced to produce vast quantities on demand and work long shifts. Unfortunately, the difficulty in keeping spiders…
Electron Tunneling Can Identify Carbohydrates at Single-Molecule Level
Researchers at Arizona State University are working on a device that can be used to identify molecules without the need for expensive equipment or vast quantities of samples. The researchers…
Implantable Biobot Drug Pump Prototype Developed
A professor of biomedical engineering from New York City’s Columbia University has developed an implantable biobot drug pump that can deliver timely doses of drugs. The device has been tested…
3D Printing of Nanocomposites Allows Real-Time Monitoring of Liquids
Researchers at Polytechnique Montréal have developed a new 3D printing method that has allowed them to 3D print a material that can detect the presence of different liquids in real…
Silk-Alginate Composite Scaffolds Show Excellent Potential for Soft Tissue Engineering
In vitro growth of tissues has great potential for a wide range of medical applications. Tissues can be grown in the lab and then used to replace damaged or lost…
Four CRISPR-Cas9 Inhibitors Discovered
Researchers at the University of California have discovered four CRISPR-Cas9 inhibitors, which could potentially be used to switch off the gene-editing system to prevent unintentional gene edits. The CRISPR-Cas9 system…
Potentially Effective Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease Discovered
Researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have discovered two new molecules that have high therapeutic potential for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The discoveries were made…
AI-Powered Breath Sensor Capable of Diagnosing 17 Diseases
Could going to the doctor for a checkup soon involve taking a breath test? Thanks to the work of a multinational team of researchers, that could soon be a possibility….
Carbon Nanotubes Used in Quick and Easy Test for Circulating Tumor Cells
If cancer is identified in the early stages, treatment can be highly effective. However, in the latter stages of the disease, as the cancer spreads to other organs, treatment becomes…