Printing vessel vasculature is essential for sustaining functional living tissues. Until now, bioengineers have had difficulty building thick tissues, lacking a method to embed vascular…
An amputee feels rough or smooth textures in real-time — with his phantom hand — using an artificial fingertip connected to nerves in the arm.…
Kevin Plaxco is a professor of chemistry at UCSB. He explains how the ideal molecular sensor will be sensitive, versatile, small enough to hold in…
Development of new therapeutics for chronic lung diseases have been hindered by the inability to study them in vitro. To address this challenge, Wyss Institute…
Using technology invented at MIT, doctors may one day be able to monitor patients’ vital signs by having them swallow an ingestible electronic device that…
The "drinkable book" combines treated paper with printed information on how and why water should be filtered. Its pages contain nanoparticles of silver or copper,…
MIT Media Lab's Hugh Herr explains how he looks to nature when developing new bionic appendages. The amputee and avid rock climber discusses how his…
The Wyss Institute has developed a targeted vascular nanotherapeutic (Vascular NanoRx) platform that targets drugs to stenotic (narrowed) sites in blood vessels to treat life-threatening…
Using ultrasound waves, researchers have found a way to enable rapid delivery of drugs to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. This approach could make it easier…
Open Labs is a fellowship of Yale graduate and professional students sharing a devotion to encourage and support underprivileged promising young scholars to pursue careers…
For nearly two years now, members of the remote Mexican village of La Mancalona, have operated and maintained a solar-powered water purification system engineered by…
A Spanish cancer patient has received a titanium sternum and rib cage designed and manufactured by Melbourne-based medical device company Anatomics and printed utilising our…
Although Blake Leeper has prostheses on both legs he appears not to have any troubles training. He's Paralympic athletes and here we see a little…
Carlos Arturo Torres Tovar at Umeå University in Sweden has designed this prosthetic arm compatible with Lego. https://youtu.be/e0ne-XfXtnQ
William Gerwick and Paul Jensen of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego present their research on marine biomedicine and marine drug…
Pamela C. Ronald and Angelika Hilbeck engage in a scientifically informed debate about the use of GMOs when discussing how best to feed the…
NASA has put research into this flexible, high-temperature space material that may also some day improve the safety for firefighters and to improve fire shelter…
The Scalevo wheelchair is a student project started in Summer 2014 at ETH Zurich. #ETHZ The wheelchair is electric powered and balances on two wheels…
The founder of Sirius XM satellite radio, Martine Rothblatt now heads up a drug company that makes life-saving medicines for rare diseases (including one drug…
Robot Stitches A Grape Back Together! The da Vinci Surgical System is used to stitch a grape back together. The same technology that can be…