HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Researchers Invent Technique to Unboil Egg Whites
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Australian chemists have discovered a way to unboil egg whites, according to findings published in the journal ChemBioChem.
DNA ‘Smart Glue’ May Help Build 3D Tissues, Organs
DNA strands can act as a glue to hold together 3-D-printed materials that could someday be used to grow tissues and organs in the lab, a new study has found.
Your Smart Phone as Medical Lab Instrument
High-priced microscopes, spectrometers and chromatography devices get all the attention in lab equipment circles.
Neurotechnology Hits Its Stride
Chronic pain, hearing loss, sleep apnea, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, paralysis from stroke or spinal cord injury. These are among a growing array of medical conditions that physicians are now treating with neurotechnology devices, which deliver electrical stimulus to limbs and organs.
Enabling New Age Knees
Over the course of 50 years, the average person takes about 140 million steps. Add tennis, jogging and a gym membership and it’s no wonder that knee replacement surgeries increase 10% year over year. In 2010, American doctors replaced more than 590,000 knees. All this repair work requires
Wearable Chemical Sensors for Asthma Sufferers
Imagine a phone app that warns you in advance of potentially dangerous air pollution at your location. That’s one proposed benefit from wearable air monitors under development by a California-based startup, Chemisense. The monitors will track about a dozen pollutants, including carbon
Researchers Use 3D Printers to Create Custom Medical Implants
A team of researchers at Louisiana Tech University has developed a method for using what they say is affordable, consumer-grade 3D printers and materials to fabricate custom medical implants that can contain antibacterial and chemotherapeutic compounds for targeted drug delivery. The team,