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With common pathogens such as E coli and the pneumonia bug K. pneumoniae developing resistance to our antibiotics of last resort, leading pharmacologists, clinicians and epidemiologists say we risk being cast back to a time

when even routine surgery put Victorians at risk of fatal infection. It's no mystery

The growth of novel personal medical sensing technologies, many of which use Bluetooth, could soon change this.

the Scanadu Scout is described perhaps best as something approaching a real version of the medical tricorder wielded by Star trek doctor Leonard"Bones#Mccoy.

The raw medical data, which is sent wirelessly via Bluetooth to an Android app, can be forwarded automatically to doctors.

you need to have surgery to replace it. Power is always a challenge. The innovation is a flexible piezoelectric layer sandwiched between biocompatible plastic.

Partly because confirming the diagnosis required that epidemiologists fly from Europe to Africa collect blood samples fly back to Europe

##This could really be a game-changer for a lot of applications including diagnostics##say James Collins who is a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Boston University and a core faculty member at Harvard s Wyss Institute.##

many women with DCIS are reluctant to take oral tamoxifen after being treated with breast-saving surgery

says lead author Seema Khan, professor of surgery and professor of cancer research at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine.

Women who have completed surgery and radiation are given oral tamoxifen for five years to reduce the risk of the DCIS recurring at the same place

and lead to a type of medicine where physicians treat disease and alleviate pain with electronics instead of drugs. e need to make these devices as small as possible to more easily implant them deep in the body

and drug delivery systems to apply medicines directly to affected areas, Poon says. The work creates the potential to develop lectroceuticaltreatments as alternatives to drug therapies,

In the experiment, Poon used her midfield transfer system to send power directly to tiny medical implants.

The breakthrough of knowing where the gene pools that created your DNA were mixed last has massive implications for lifesaving personalized medicine

Medical screening Elhaik coauthor Tatiana Tatarinova developed a website making GPS accessible to the public. o help people find their roots,

an associate professor of research pediatrics at the Keck School of medicine of the University of Southern California. e were surprised by the simplicity and precision of this method.

this kind of screening has huge, important medical implications. The discovery of a certain genotype might indicate the potential for a genetic disease

Also, as scientists learn more about personalized medicine, there is evidence that specific genotypes respond differently to medicationsaking this information potentially useful

and it adjusts food supplements, minerals and medicines for each animal. As for the farmer, aside from filling the hoppers,

Consumer Physics has developed three different applications for identifying food, medicines, and plants. During a short demo,

which will be touting for customers at a meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics in Phoenix, Arizona, on 19-23 march.

But one of the biggest questions will be how deeply analysis companies can reach into medical settings,

#Mini robot space surgeon to climb inside astronauts It could one day answer the prayers of astronauts who need surgery in deep space.

The miniature surgeon slides into the body through an incision in the belly button. Once inside the abdominal cavity which has been filled with inert gas to make room for it to work the robot can remove an ailing appendix, cut pieces from a diseased colon or repair a perforated gastric ulcer.

the surgery bot will perform a set of exercises to demonstrate its dexterity, such as manipulating rubber bands and other inanimate objects.

if you would consider surgery in space, "says team member Shane Farritor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Medical emergency For now, the only humans in space venture no further than the International space station.

Surgery in space would be extremely difficult. Without gravity, it is easy for bodily fluids like blood to float free

so medical tools need to be relatively light but capable of handling many kinds of situations."

The feed relays to a control station, where a human surgeon operates it using joysticks.

Space surgeons Prototypes have performed several dozen procedures in pigs. The team says the next step is to work in human cadavers

"You could imagine situations in the future where you can actually dial in a surgery from the ground

This article will appear in print under the headline"Surgery bot fits in astronaut's gut a

from environmental remediation to medical analysis. The polymers are synthesized at room temperature, and don need to be prepared specially to target specific compounds;

offering the example of a cheap testing kit for urine analysis of medical patients. The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,

and an expert in nanoengineering for health care and medical applications. hen you think about field deployment,

a field that uses biology to develop new tools for science, technology and medicine. The new study, published in print today in the journal Nano Letters,

This transformative technology enables highly specific low-power high-throughput physiological sensing that can be multiplexed to detect a number of significant disease-specific factors in real time commented Scott Hammond executive director of UCSB's Translational Medicine

In essence continued Hammond the promise of true evidence-based personalized medicine is finally becoming reality. This demonstration is said quite remarkable Andras Kis professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and a leading scientist in the field of 2d materials and devices.

This could get around a lot of serious health problems in neurodegenerative diseases in the future.""These disorders, such as Parkinson's, that involve malfunctioning nerve cells can lead to difficulty with the most mundane and essential movements that most of us take for granted:

which are affected in some neurodegenerative diseases. And it's at this level where the promise of Lieber's most recent work enters the picture.

or DNA sequence from one animal into the genome of another plays a critical role in a wide range of medical researchncluding cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and diabetes.

You also fail to mention just how many advances in modern medicine we were given by the Germans.

And yes a lot of medical breakthroughs came from the horrible experiments done by the Nazi's

and potentially getting new medicines to the people who need them more rapidly. Not to mention the potential applications of stem cell-derived organs in toxicology screens for new pharmaceutical compounds

in order to reduce the chances of severe side effects manifesting further down the line in real living people.

'there is enormous medical potential here and I think that to deny such potential for the individuals who will most benefit from it in future

but efforts to harness them for medical use have been hampered because isolating useful phages from soil

what synthetic biology approaches will bring to medicine in the near future. targeted strikein this study, the researchers engineered phages that can target pathogenic Yersinia and Klebsiella bacteria,

Digital imaging is expected to enable many emerging fields including wearable devices, sensor networks, smart environments, personalized medicine,

#New synthetic technology for medicines and fine chemicals A University of Tokyo research group has succeeded in synthesizing (R)- and (S)- rolipram, the active component of a medicine,

in high yield with high selectivity by an innovative catalyzed flow fine synthesis instead of the traditional batch method used in the production of 99%of medicines.

the active components of medicines as well as other fine chemicals are synthesized by a repeated batch reaction method, in

Professor Kobayashi says"This new technology can be applied to not only other gamma aminobutyric-acids acids and medicines but also various chemicals such as flavors, agricultural chemicals,

which is a medical emergency potentially requiring surgical intervention, says Koch Institute research affiliate Giovanni Traverso,

a professor of medical science and engineering at Brown University who was not involved with this study. his is a very smart approach. n particular,

#Bioadhesive Nanoparticles Help Protect Your Skin From the Sun Dermatologists from Yale university have developed a new sunscreen made with bioadhesive nanoparticles that doesn penetrate the skin,

said co-author Michael Girardi, a professor of dermatology at Yale Medical school. n fact, the indirect damage was worse

and Julia Lewis, from the Department of Dermatology. Saltzman and Girardi are affiliated with the Yale Cancer Center.

Very recently, we reported on 3d printed icrofishrobots that can be injected directly into our blood to perform complex medical tasks.

and eventually be implemented successfully in medical applications. Posted in 3d printing Applications (adsbygoogle=window. adsbygoogle. push({}

Its applications range from medicine, advanced energy, electronics, aerospace design and many others. Despite these groundbreaking characteristics,

and delivering medicinal products to hard-to-reach places within the body. The leaders of this project, Professors Shoachen Chen and Joseph Wang, recognized that most microrobots that have already been produced are unable to perform more advanced tasks due to their simply-shaped designs and inorganic physical make-ups.

helping medical professionals gather their diagnosis from swimming throughout the body with these microfish. 3d printing enthusiasts are amazed oftentimes by

processes done in a medical testing lab for example, purifying samples, mixing ingredients, capturing bacteria can be done with material about the size of a deck of cards.

a biomedical engineer and faculty member at the Center for Nanomedicine at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins. Researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering meanwhile,

the device could have applications in voice-command electronics, medical sensing devices that use waves, like ultrasound,

you could build the tissue right at the surgery time to be whatever size that you require,

Surgeons could then graft the scaffold onto the patient's heart, and after a few months the patient would be left with a repaired heart (and no scaffold,

and record subsequent images which a medical professional can then download and add to the complete diagnostic data Set in testing thus far,

the researchers believe that the feasibility of the propulsion model will move their creation toward the next set of experiments and onward to eventual deployment in working medical applications.

Biochemical engineer Christina Smolke and colleagues had been working on the problem of synthesizing opioids and other plant-based medicines in the lab for about a decade.

that it would require thousands of gallons of yeast to make a single dose of medicine."

would need to be addressed for engineered yeast to ever realize home-brew biosynthesis of medicinal opiates at meaningful yields."

Tandon is a scientist, biomedical engineer, TED Senior Fellow and co-author of Super Cells: Building with Biology (TED Conferences, 2014.

Though it is surgeons'current best option, it still isn't that great. The surgery is invasive and destructive.

It can leave patients with a whole host of new issues, including the need for multiple surgeries.

Roger Ebert because doctors cut bone out of his hip and shoulder, suffered a limp for the rest of his life.

we might also adapt cells to groundbreaking new uses in other realms of medicine, or even entirely different fields, such as architecture, art and fashion.

a biomedical engineer at the University of British columbia. t similar to when a grenade goes off

Orbital angular momentum of neutron waves can be controlled September 25th, 2015liquid crystals show potential for detection of neurodegenerative disease September 24th, 201 0

"displays the development of a powerful synthetic method that enables rapid access to para-functionalized benzene derivatives to construct libraries of bioactive compounds that are useful in medicinal chemistry.

In the medical field, the substance has shown activity against cancer cell lines. In cosmetics, people appreciate the good smell, in soft drinks a fine, subtle taste.

said co-author Michael Girardi, a professor of dermatology at Yale Medical school. In fact, the indirect damage was worse

This method was found to deliver medicine to the brain with few side effects. About one out of every hundred Norwegians develop schizophrenia or autism in the course of their lifetime.

Many psychiatric disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are characterised by poor social functioning. Oxytocin is a hormone that influences social behaviour

who have developed a new device designed to improve medicine delivery to the brain via the nose.

Medicine through the nosebecause of oxytocin role in social behaviour, researchers have explored the possibility of administering the hormone for the treatment of mental illness.

Breathing helpsoptinose uses a new technology to distribute medicine to the brain, making use of the user breath to propel medicine deep into the nasal cavity.

The device administers oxytocin high up into the patient nasal cavity. When the medicine is targeted deep inside the nose,

it enables brain delivery along nerve pathways from the uppermost part of the nasal cavity. Conventional nasal spray devices are suited not to consistently deliver medicine high up enough into the nose.

The device also expands the nasal cavity, facilitating nose-to-brain medicine delivery. As the user exhales into the device,

this closes the soft palate and prevents the medicine from being lost down the throat. Since less medicine is lost along the way

patients can take smaller doses and accordingly experience fewer side effects. May yield new treatmentsthe next step in the research is to carry out the same tests on people with mental illness. e are now running tests in volunteers diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders,

says Dr Quintana. e hope that this research project is the first step in the development of a series of new medicines that may be of great help to more people with mental illness,

concludes Professor Andreassen. Funding: The research was supported in part by the Indiana State department of Health (Grant#204200 to RS), National institutes of health (Grant#NS073636 to RS),

and Indiana CTSI Collaboration in Biomedical Translational Research Pilot program Grant (Grant#RR025761 to RS). Funding for the LSM710 was provided by NIH NCRR Shared instrumentation Grant 1 S10 RR023734-01a1.

L Poppy, H Smevik, M Tesli, M Røine, R A Mahmoud, K T Smerud, P G Djupesland and O A Andreassen in Translational Psychiatry.

L Poppy, H Smevik, M Tesli, M Røine, R A Mahmoud, K T Smerud, P G Djupesland and O A Andreassen in Translational Psychiatry.

The new imaging method could make future medical applications more cost-effective and space-efficient than is possible with today technologies.

The researchers say that their technology is articularly interesting for medical applications as it can distinguish between differences in tissue density.

and medicine, bringing them better quality of life,""says Toledo Flores. The project was presented at the International Congress of Solar energy at Germany y

"EVLP opens up new possibilities in one of the most problematic areas of surgery.""Patricia Moore, 63, from Oswestry was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 2011 and received a transplant in 2014.

but efforts to harness them for medical use have been hampered because isolating useful phages from soil

a Swiss transplant surgeon in Geneva. He said he would transplant a genetically engineered pig organ into a patient today,

complete with a surgical theater and a helipad so organs can be whisked where they are needed.

leading transplant surgeons have been meeting with Revivicor ever few months to plan what genes they like to see added next.

or 100 iterations. et surgeons credit the genetically enhanced pigs with some recent successes. Muhammad Mohiuddin,

a transplant surgeon and researcher at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, in Bethesda, Maryland, says a heart from one of Revivicor pigs lasted two and a half years inside a baboon.

That is because surgeons still need to completely replace a baboon heart with one from these pigs

but lungs are very difficult. ransplant surgeons say one of the largest obstacles they face is the immense cost of carrying out xenotransplant experiments.

A single transplant surgery costs $100, 000 and involves eight people. Then there the cost of keeping the primates, the red tape of animal regulations,

#Transplant Surgeons Revive Hearts After Death Transplant surgeons have started using a device that allows them to eanimatehearts from people who have died recently,

In at least 15 cases, surgeons in the United kingdom and Australia say they have used the system to successfully transplant hearts removed from patients after theye died.

surgeons at St vincent Hospital in New south wales described three cases in which they waited as little as two minutes after a person heart stopped before they began removing it.

Without such help, surgeons consider hearts from dead donors too damaged to use. he device is vital.

says Stephen Large, a surgeon at Papworth Hospital in the United kingdom, which has used the system as part of eight heart transplants.

Transplant surgeons recognize two major categories of death. People can be brain dead, or they die

a transplant surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital. arm is the way to go with metabolically active tissue. everal small companies are working on warm perfusion machines,

But surgeons found that hearts that stop naturally often didn start again, or can pump blood,

says Large, the Papworth surgeon. The crisis is particularly severe in the U k, . where handguns and some other firearms are prohibited,

the ethical dilemma is how long surgeons should wait before swooping in to retrieve organs. In the U s.,the accepted standard is five minutes,

although Colorado surgeons in 2008 took hearts from brain-damaged newborns after waiting only 75 seconds.

Robert Truog, a medical ethicist at Harvard university, says a question is whether these donors are given really dead

This is where the tadpole comes in, with researchers Yong Zhong and Ruxu Du from the Institute of Precision Engineering and Philip W Y Chiu of the Jockey club Minimally Invasive Surgery Training Centre,

But that's not All the team implanted medical-grade tubing and catheters coated with the material in large blood vessels in pigs

but is often a necessary evil in medical treatments where clotting is a risk. Devising a way to prevent blood clotting without using anticoagulants is one of the holy grails in medicine said Don Ingber M d Ph d. Founding Director of Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and senior author of the study.

Ingber is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital as well as professor of bioengineering at Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS.

whereas medical surfaces are mostly flat and smooth --so we further adapted our approach by capitalizing on the natural roughness of chemically modified surfaces of medical devices said Aizenberg who leads the Wyss Institute's Adaptive Materials platform.

which is used widely in medicine for applications such as liquid ventilation for infants with breathing challenges blood substitution eye surgery and more.

whose specialties range from hematology to immunology surface chemistry and materials science. This really could only happen in a place like the Wyss Institute Ingber said.

#Smallest world record has ndless possibilitiesfor bionanotechnology Scientists from the University of Leeds have taken a crucial step forward in bionanotechnology a field that uses biology to develop new tools for science technology and medicine.

from environmental remediation to medical analysis. The polymers are synthesized at room temperature, and don need to be prepared specially to target specific compounds;

offering the example of a cheap testing kit for urine analysis of medical patients. The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,

and an expert in nanoengineering for health care and medical applications. hen you think about field deployment,

there little that orthopedists can do to regenerate a torn knee meniscus, said study leader Jeremy Mao in a release. ome small tears can be sewn back in place,

however, with a health-focused wristband that provides constant patient information for participants in medical studies and clinical field trials.

and the dedicated medical wearable unveiled today also monitors and reports information continuously, for better delivery of real-time actionable info to researchers and medical professionals.

Testing for the medical band begins this summer, according to Google, and it going to pursue regulatory approval for its use in medical contexts in partnership with academic institutions and drug companies, per Bloomberg.

This isn Google first move in building medical hardware; Google X is also creating contact lenses that can monitor blood glucose level to help in managing conditions like diabetes.

The competition is also eager to contribute to the medical research community pple has introduced Researchkit,

which allows studies to use iphones and ipads to gather participant data from a wider potential user pool, for instance o

and making sure the genes are stable says Dean Price a professor of medicine biology and environment at Australian National University.

physics and astronomy, to bioengineering, pathology and laboratory medicine. The Californa Nanosystems Institute and the Johnsson Comprehensive Cancer Center also contributed, with support from the National Science Foundation and the Howard hughes medical institute.

it is easy to imagine this kind of groundbreaking medical technology being used in remote, rural or developing countries, many

and 99.4 percent for both herpes simplex 1 and 2. ur team is focused on developing biomedical technologies that work with mobile platforms to assist with on-site testing

which represent a major milestone for designing materials with customized functions and structures for applications in medicine, optics, and energy.

from environmental remediation to medical analysis. The polymers are synthesized at room temperature, and don need to be prepared specially to target specific compounds;

offering the example of a cheap testing kit for urine analysis of medical patients. The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,

and an expert in nanoengineering for health care and medical applications. hen you think about field deployment,

raise promise for medicine but also concerns about"home-brewed"illegal drugs. Experts have called for tight control of organisms genetically modified to produce narcotics.

The broad concept of using microscopic organisms to make drugs is not new in medicine.

#Bionic eye implant world first Surgeons in Manchester have performed the first bionic eye implant in a patient with the most common cause of sight loss in the developed world.

on the morning of his surgery and he explained that although his retained his peripheral vision,

and was led by Paulo Stanga, consultant ophthalmologist and vitreo-retinal surgeon at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and professor of ophthalmology and retinal regeneration at the University of Manchester.

In a test, two weeks after surgery, Mr Flynn was able to detect the pattern of horizontal,

so that the medical team could be sure that the visual information was coming via the camera on his glasses and the implant.

Gregoire Cosendai of Second sight Medical Products, described the AMD study as"totally groundbreaking research"."The trial is being held in the Manchester Clinical Research Facility-funded by the National Institute for Health Research and Wellcome Trust,

and for personalized medicine. The new optical attachment, which includes a lens, filter, mount and laser diode in a 3d-printed case, can image and size DNA molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair.

and 99.4 percent each for herpes simplex 1 and 2. ur team is focused on developing biomedical technologies that work with mobile platforms to assist with on-site testing

The UCLA team included researchers from electrical engineering, physics and astronomy, bioengineering, pathology and laboratory medicine,

and surgery, as well as the California Nanosystems Institute and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. The other authors on the paper were UCLA graduate students Bingen Cortazar, Derek Tseng, Haydar Ozkan, Raymond Yan-Lok Chan, and Steve Feng;

Surgeons at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital implanted a chip at the back of Mr Flynn eye in a four-hour procedure last month.

Surgeons will now insert the Argus II retinal implant into more patients over the coming months to demonstrate that it can work for a variety of patients.

Professor Paulo Stanga, consultant ophthalmologist at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, said: r Flynn progress is truly remarkable.

developed by US firm Second sight Medical Products, might be used for patients with other vision problems.

In medicine you talk of drug delivery-we do flavour delivery."."The sensory profile of Douxmatok is literally the same as sugar."

and it Will be Not-for-Profit The world first malaria vaccine has been given approval by a European medical agency for future use in Sub-saharan africa, where more than a quarter million children under the age of five die every year from the disease.

With this approval from the European Medicines Agency Friday, the vaccine next will be considered by the World health organizations,

#Biomedical breakthrough: Carbon nanoparticles you can make at home Abstract: Researchers have found an easy way to produce carbon nanoparticles that are small enough to evade the body's immune system,

which could have broad medical applications, "Borgens said.""The technology is in the early stages of testing,

breaks through in medical technology June 23rd, 2015nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd,

They can also be used in medical and military industries. Ultrasonic bath has been used in the finishing process of the fabrics.

from environmental remediation to medical analysis. The polymers are synthesized at room temperature, and don need to be prepared specially to target specific compounds;

offering the example of a cheap testing kit for urine analysis of medical patients. The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,

and an expert in nanoengineering for health care and medical applications. hen you think about field deployment,

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