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The specialists initiated a combination treatment with several drugs but found themselves lacking a quick, reliable way to see how the bacteria responded. The clinicians ultimately turned to CT (computed...
Minor variants of flu strains, which are not typically targeted in vaccines, carry a bigger viral punch than previously realized, a team of scientists has found. Its research, which examined...
Dr. Sanjay Jain explores “tricorder” from Star Trek, a hand-held scanner waved over a patient to detect injury and heal all manner of maladies. More Source link
Cornell University biomedical engineers have discovered specific mechanical stresses activated the growth factors responsible for proper heart valve formation. More Source link
A team of researchers have adapted optical coherence tomography to detect bacterial biofilms often associated with ventilator-assisted pneumonia in the ICU. More Source link
Researcher studies will enable better ways to treat debilitating and costly orthopedic problems like meniscus tears and age-related tissue degeneration. More Source link
Researchers used a cryo-electron microscope to find appendages on E. coli that allow it to withstand fluid flow and establish infection in the urinary tract. More Source link
Columbia University researchers use electrical signals on heart cells engineered from human stem cells to regulate and synchronize cells that support heartbeat. More Source link
Life-science imaging broke barriers this year, as scientists built upon microscopy approaches to peer ever deeper into living tissues. In October, Purdue University’s Ji-Xin Cheng and colleagues reported they had...
Researchers at MIT have engineered capsules that could protect insulin-producing cells, derived from stem cells, from being attacked by the immune system. More Source link
