Hearts-on-a-chip Could Aid Drug Screening
UC Berkeley researchers have created a ‘heart-on-a-chip’ that effectively uses human cardiac muscle cells derived from adult stem cells to model how a human heart reacts to cardiovascular medications....
View ArticleExotic Micropumps and Gels Offer Hope for Hearing Disorders
Researchers at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory have fabricated and tested a simplified micropump and used it to demonstrate the flow of fluid into and out of the device, the ability to store drug...
View ArticleNew Nanoneedles Could Be an Important Tool to Reprogram Cells
Image of nanoneedles delivering nucleic acids to a human cell (Image Credit:Imperial College London) Researchers from Imperial College London think that a new nanoneedle technique could help deliver...
View ArticleMechanically Stimulating Stem Cells
Diagram of inertial microfluidic separation, developed with Professor J. Han at MIT and SMART, for sorting mesenchymal (bone marrow-derived) stem cells by cell diameter. Illustration adapted from the...
View ArticleFight Neurodegenerative Diseases using Stem Cells and Microfluidics
Screenshot from BellBrook Lab BellBrook Labs, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently awarded federal funding to develop a microscale system to accelerate discovery of...
View ArticleScaling Up Tissue Engineering
Confocal microscopy image showing a cross-section of a 3D-printed, 1-centimeter-thick vascularized tissue construct showing stem cell differentiation towards development of bone cells, following one...
View ArticleMicrofluidics and Spectroscopic Imaging for Personalized Medicine in Ovarian...
With certain cancers, such as ovarian cancers, a significant number of patients are non-responsive to the standard chemotherapy treatment. These patients, therefore, experience the negative side...
View ArticleOxford Scientists Develop New Method of 3D Printing Living Tissues
Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a new method to 3D-print laboratory-grown cells to form living structures. The approach could revolutionise regenerative medicine, enabling the...
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