once perfected, may open the door to a variety of new 3d printing applications within the art industry, medicine, aerospace, security, architecture, and more.
The work appears in today's (Jan 21) issue of Science Translational Medicine e
#Bye bye Baubles: New 3d printers Could Build Implants Electronics Several new 3d printers showcased at CES 2015 in Las vegas earlier this month suggest that the 3d printing industry best known for churning out brightly colored plastic doodads could be turning over a new
Amid the rough-edged replicas of superheroes and army tanks that adorned the expo's 3d printing space stood a machine that prints tiny medical implants that dissolve inside the human body.
"7 Cool Uses of 3d printing in Medicine During cartilage replacement surgery, the scaffold containing the stem cells would be implanted in the knee,
Dr. Daniel Kraft, a pediatrician and the founding executive director of Exponential Medicine, at a talk here at the 2015 CES."
so that chances can be made to their daily medicines or lifestyle. Is Grandma OK? Forget the cliché of dying alone and unnoticed till neighbors notice a funny smell.
#Shaping Implantable Medical devices to Avoid Immune system Tiny medical implants that can ferry drugs, cells, or other therapies safely to sites of disease are already seeing the light of day.
The hope is that this new application of optogenetics to voluntary muscles will help in medical research
Study in Science Translational Medicine: Detection of human brain cancer infiltration ex vivo and in vivo using quantitative optical coherence tomographyource:
Johns Hopkins Medicine
#Electromagnetic field Activated Drug Loadded Nanowires Drug releasing implants can be of great benefit for conditions requiring long term treatment in a targeted area of the body.
#New Technology for Blood-Free Glucose Sensing The University of Leeds may have solved one of the biggest holy grails in medicine,
In a small scale clinical study at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, the technology has shown considerable promise to be able to match currently used glucometers.
A 2014 Gallup poll found that 41 percent of Americans find medical testing on animals to be morally wrong,
"Ultra-miniaturized devices like this have tremendous potential for science and medicine.""With a thickness of 80 micrometers and a width of 500 micrometers, the optofluidic implant is thinner than the metal tubes,
Dr. Hemant K. Roy professor of medicine and Chief of gastroenterology at Boston Medical center and an author of the study."
which funds transformative technological innovation designed to solve major medical problems with a substantial disease burden,
and even medicine. Now a team of Northwestern University researchers has found a way to print three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes.
The fast and efficient method could open up new opportunities for using graphene printed scaffolds regenerative engineering and other electronic or medical applications.
so it could be used for biodegradable sensors and medical implants. Shah said the biocompatible elastomer
Many thousands of times thinner than the average human hair, nanofibers are used by medical researchers to create advanced wound dressings--and for tissue regeneration
It can also be used in the production of artificial skin or other medical stuff. In this research, nanocomposite scaffold was made of silk fibroin,
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,
or chemical environment to provide unique functionality in a wide range of applications from energy to medicine.
and medical industries due to their properties, including semi-conductivity, being piezoelectric and pyroelectric and biocompatibility.
and innovation programm 1 e. Its main objective is to reach a level of international excellence in nanomedicine characterisation for medical indications like cancer, diabetes, inflammatory diseases or infections,
EU-NCL is connected also closely to national medicine agencies and the European Medicines Agency to continuously adapt its analytical services to requests of regulators.
EU-NCL is designed, organized and operated according to the highest EU regulatory and quality standards. This project is important for Europe,
in-vitro and in vivo biological testing), allowing researchers to fully comprehend the biodistribution, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, safety profiles and immunological effects of their medicinal nanoproducts.
To foster the use and deployment of standard operating procedures (SOPS), benchmark materials and quality management for the preclinical characterisation of medicinal nanoproducts.
Winner of the 2015 Lindros Award for translational medicine, Kjeld Janssen is pushing the boundaries of the emerging lab-on-a-chip technology The postage stamp-sized square of fused silica Kjeld Janssen is holding
but inside the clear chip lies the potential to improve how medicine and medical research is done. f you can integrate
and automate an analysis technique into a chip, it opens doors to great applications, said Janssen, a postdoctoral researcher in the Sumita Pennathur Lab at UC Santa barbara. With only a minimal amount of human plasma,
particularly in remote areas where people don have access to a full medical lab, as well as data gathering for clinical trials or epidemiological studies.
For the impact his project will have in the field of translational medicine the postdoctoral scholar has been awarded the 2015 Lindros Award from the UCSB Translational Medical Research Laboratory (TMRL.
and methodologies in all of medicine, said Dr. Scott Hammond, executive director of TMRL. orking with the Pennathur Lab, Kjeld Janssen research is intended to bring real-time detection to the world of medicine.
This technology, said Hammond, allows for the identification of specific DNA markers in an advanced microfluidic device. urther,
or medicine necessary to monitor or treat patients. Efforts to study and combat highly infectious diseases,
such as in medical diagnostics for example. Their results are published now in Nature Communications. 3d structures in materials
according to Jonathan Schneck, M d.,Ph d.,a professor of pathology, medicine and oncology at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine's Institute for Cell Engineering."
Winner of the 2015 Lindros Award for translational medicine, Kjeld Janssen is pushing the boundaries of the emerging lab-on-a-chip technology July 7th, 201 0
They can also be used in medical and military industries. Ultrasonic bath has been used in the finishing process of the fabrics.
including medicine, electronics and energy. Discovered only 11 years ago, graphene is one of the strongest materials in the world, highly conductive, flexible, and transparent.
it is expected that an important step is taken in the development of nanotechnology in the field of medicine,
and power conditioning for defense, medical and commercial applications. But it has been challenging to find a single dielectric material able to maximize permittivity, breakdown strength, energy density and energy extraction efficiency.
and even medicine. Now a team of Northwestern University researchers has found a way to print three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes.
The fast and efficient method could open up new opportunities for using graphene printed scaffolds regenerative engineering and other electronic or medical applications.
so it could be used for biodegradable sensors and medical implants. Shah said the biocompatible elastomer
Now, two groups of scientists are reporting for the first time that two new nucleotides can do the same thing--raising the possibility that entirely new proteins could be created for medical uses.
published in the journal Science Translational Medicine("Detection of pathological biomarkers in human clinical samples via amplifying genetic switches
New materials for energy application, new concepts for medical surfaces, new surface materials for tribological systems and nano safety and nano bio.
a process common to delivery of many species in biology and medicine-you could go to the doctor
"These type of things have never been done before, from both a fundamental neuroscience and medical perspective,
and shortening the time to market of medicines in order to fully exploit them before patents run out.
"He said that makes it ideal for medical applications because the microrobotic tentacles can't damage tissues or even blood vessels.
or chemical environment to provide unique functionality in a wide range of applications from energy to medicine.
"says lead investigator Subroto Chatterjee, Ph d.,a professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine and a metabolism expert at its Heart and Vascular Institute."
or proteins that could be targeted by drugs, eventually leading to new medicines to fight cancer r
and very much in its infancy when it comes to medical applications, Kim said. project like this,
is an opportunity to push both medicine and microrobotics into a new and exciting place.
In that study, published in a 2012 issue of Science Translational Medicine, microchips were implanted into seven elderly women,
said Robert L. Geahlen, Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Purdue. We were able to show the turn off of this kinase very rapidly alters the physical properties of the cell.
The phenomenon of RNAI is expected to find applications in medical treatments. RNAI is mediated by RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC),
"The simple, low-cost and compact nature of this method makes it particularly attractive for point-of-care applications in settings that lack sophisticated medical resources.
central laboratories equipped with large and expensive analysis systems that are operated by experienced medical technicians.
The work opens the door for scientists to manipulate such organisms to produce compounds useful as fuels or medicines."
and observe and study the biological and medical significance of RNA misregulation. Details will be published the week of July 20 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences("Quantification
"Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and professor of medicine, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering.
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,
says study leader Bjrn Hgberg from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Karolinska Institutet.
which is a medical emergency potentially requiring surgical intervention, says Koch Institute research affiliate Giovanni Traverso,
This epigenomic characterization potentially allows medical doctors to create personalized treatment of diseases, by understanding the state of a patient,
and medical skills was also extremely important, as many people suffered injuries from being hit by debris in flood waters.
These and similar findings have been dismissed by the modern medicine industry because of the lack of patentability.
Just as with chronic inflammation, modern medicine has accused the immune system as having gone awry and as the primary source of most problems associated with that process.
The world's poster child for corporate manipulation and deceitextreme bias at Wikipedia on homeopathic medicineguatemalan STD medical experiments were just one crime in a long history of medical-government collusion to use humans
But medical microbiologist Timothy Walsh of Cardiff University, UK, urges caution because the drug has been tested against only a small number of lab strains.
On top of brainwave monitoring, Jaguar land rover is also assessing how a vehicle could monitor the well-being of the driver using a medical-grade sensor embedded in the seat of a JAGUAR XJ.
Through a clinical collaboration between Caltech, Keck Medicine of USC and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, the now 34-year-old Sorto is the first person in the world to have a neural
The Surgery The surgical team at Keck Medicine of USC performed the unprecedented neuroprosthetic implant in a five-hour surgery on April 17, 2013.
We have created a unique environment that can seamlessly bring together rehabilitation, medicine, and science as exemplified in this study.
developed at the Applied Physics laboratory at Johns Hopkins. Sorto was recruited to the trial by collaborators at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center and at Keck Medicine of USC.
Keck Medicine of USC team members include Brian Lee, Christianne Heck, Sandra Oviedo, Paul Kim,
or record neural activity. hese type of things have never been done before, from both a fundamental neuroscience and medical perspective,
A summary of the research appears June 17 in Science Translational Medicine. s a neurosurgeon, I in agony when I taking out a tumor.
says Dr. Juan carlos Altamirano Vallejo, medical director of the Medical and Surgical Center for Retina.
"says Daniel Weiss at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, who works on lung regeneration."
relieve pain and perhaps help male infertility and other medical conditions. The curious healing effect has been known for decades researchers have been investigating its use in eye injuries
A better understanding of how red light affects cells should make it easier to expand its medical uses,
nor is there evidence at this time that medical information such as claims, test results, or diagnostic codes were targeted
vaccine or medicine,"says Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director-general for health systems and innovation at the World health organization,
The technology hasn't received regulatory approval for doctors to use it in making medical decisions.
"Challenges to greater adoption of computer-modeling include a lack of data for some medical conditions,
"Or will this change how we practice medicine?""He said he hopes advanced technology can fill some gaps,
"This camera module has been designed specifically for medical applications with stringent biocompatibility, sterilization and electrical requirements,"said Shingo Ishii, group leader of the medical business development division at Fujikura.
He adds that the module very small footprint and power efficiency are critical features for such applications,
and optical micro-assemblies designed specifically for small CMOS-based medical camera systems. The company also showed off the innovation at last week Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) event
but the firm has been touting the medical sector as one that is ripe for growth. Tehzeeb Gunja, one of its senior marketing and business development managers, said of the Fujikura/POC collaboration:"
We anticipate that our terahertz device will have applications in personal security, scanning and various medical sectors.
but a new number published today in the medical journal The Lancet may be even more significant.
which develops medical technology for use in patients s
#Researchers develop new Algorithm to empower Robots to Learn like Humans New algorithms enable robots to learn motor tasks through trial and error, like humans.
/Johns Hopkins Medicine. First developed in the early 1990s for imaging the retina, OCT operates on the same echolocation principle used by bats and ultrasound scanners,
The research was published in Science Translational Medicine (doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed. 3010611. For more information, visit www. hopkinsmedicine. org.
"The results of a pilot clinical study, carried out at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine under the supervision of professor Peter Grant,
"Multispectral imaging is used for many types of medical research and not only produces an image but also provides data about the specific colors within that image.
A 2014 study published in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation found that amputees using the device reported increased mobility,
But in an extremely promising medical advance, scientists are now saying that an experimental Ebola vaccine with 100 percent effectiveness has been developed.
A paper published today in The british medical journal Lancet reports that the vaccine which has been tested in Guinea
The medical authorities carrying out the trial have been using what known as a ing vaccination strategyto test the vaccine efficacy.
but were dismissed ultimately by the medical teams involved for practical reasons. Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust, a major supporter of the research, commented on this in an interview with the New york times saying the fact that the trial still achieved positive results in spite of various constraints and limitations,
so you don forget medicine at the store, to connect to your digital wallet and stop you before you overspend.
but with increasing advances in technology, science and medicine, perhaps it isn so unrealistic to think that someday mobile apps like this one will help bridge the gap between patients who lost the capacity to speak,
which develops medical technology for use in patients. Olafsson said his body continues to adapt to his prosthetic limb more each day
"said Varda Shalev, a medical informatics expert and active care primary physician. She is an external consultant to the Tel aviv-based Nuvo Group.
Noninvasive approaches to move and ultimately expel kidney stones from the body provide medical capabilities needed by NASA and other international space agencies.
the medical experts of a UK healthcare provider expressed a sincere appreciation of the work carried out by researchers,
particularly those that store vaccines and other medical products. Published in The Lancet. This study was funded by a gift from the Abundance Foundation (Stephen Kahn.
"says Dr. Juan carlos Altamirano Vallejo, medical director of the Medical and Surgical Center for Retina."
Their work, published online July 8 by the journal Science Translational Medicine, could pave the way for gene therapy in people with hearing loss caused by genetic mutations."
precision medicine treatment injected into their ears to restore hearing, "Holt says. Sound transducers: How TMC works Holt's team showed in 2013 that TMC1
Publishing the results in Science Translational Medicine, the team observed no serious side effects. Studies on mice and rats showed the drug could also be used to prolong survival in particularly severe pneumonia,
while previous research published last year in Nature Medicine has shown this class of drugs could also be effective in treating tuberculosis.
Amgen, is to get approval from the FDA and the European Medicines Agency. The drug is administered once every two weeks for up to 18 months
and deliver medicine to wherever it's most needed in the body. They're also relatively easy to track as they move through the system,
and interfere with them as they deliver their medicine.""These tiny particles are camouflaged kind of, I would say,
"The device was created by medical company, Second sight, and works through an electronic device that's implanted onto a patient's retina-the layer of light-sensing cells at the back of the eye.
#Scientists are figuring out how to make medicinal marijuana, without the high Scientists have figured out how to separate the pain relieving qualities of medical marijuana from its psychological side-effects in an effort to offer people a new high-free option.
"There has been a great deal of medical interest in understanding the molecular mechanisms at work in THC, so that the beneficial effects can be harnessed without the side-effects,"one of the team,
The company lists medical monitoring, sportswear clothing and even connected cars as potential use cases for its technology-bend
"Non-destructive manipulation of cells over time and in the correct environment is a key enabling technology highly needed within the biology and medical research communities,
#Rate of investment in medical research has declined in U s. increased globally From 2004 to 2012,
the rate of investment in medical research in the U s. declined, while there has been an increase in research investment globally, particularly in Asia, according to a study in the January 13 issue of JAMA.
For the last century medical research including public health advances has been the primary source of and an essential contributor to improvement in the health and longevity of individuals and populations in developed countries.
Few previous analyses have compared medical research in the United states with other developed countries according to background information in the article.
and who supports medical research as well as resulting patents publications and new drug and device approvals.
The share of U s. medical research funding from industry accounted for 46 percent in 1994
medicines currently in clinical trials. Underfunding of service innovation Health services research (which examines access to care the quality
in comparison with total medical research funding. Private insurers ranked last (0. 04 percent of revenue) and health systems 19th (0. 1 percent of revenue) among 22 industries in their investment in innovation.
The analysis underscores the need for the United states to find new sources to support medical research
and creates an environment that enables innovation write Victor J. Dzau M d. of the Institute of Medicine Washington D c. and Harvey V. Fineberg M d. Ph d. of the University of California San francisco in an accompanying editorial.
and professor and chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at University of Washington Medicine and co-chair of the Head Neck and Spine Committee of the National Football league.
"These include materials science, electronics, neuroscience, medicine, and algorithm programming. I don't think there are many places in the world where one finds the level of interdisciplinary cooperation that exists in our Center for Neuroprosthetics."
"The standard way we do electrocardiograms does not provide sufficient information to enable medical professionals to focus in clearly to the area of concern."
since medical staff can identify and isolate confirmed Ebola cases more rapidly, "said Dr. Christiane Stahl-Hennig, the Head of the Unit of Infection Models."
The medical potential of this pathway warrants detailed study to provide information about the pathway's enzymes and their regulation.
I. Shulman the George R. Cowgill professor of medicine and cellular & molecular physiology--developed a novel method to measure the rate of triglyceride production from fatty acids in three types of animals:
when we can use ipscs for human therapy aren't that far away says Zhaohui Ye Ph d. an instructor of medicine at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine.
Linzhao Cheng Ph d. a professor of medicine and oncology in the Johns hopkins university School of medicine; and their colleagues pitted CRISPR against TALEN in human ipscs adult cells reprogrammed to act like embryonic stem cells.
"explains senior author Evan Rosen, MD, Phd, of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical school."
#Byproducts from bacteria awaken dormant T-cells HIV viruses Dental and medical researchers from Case Western Reserve University found another reason to treat periodontal disease as soon as possible.
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant forms of S. aureus is a significant problem worldwide in clinical medicine.
Wong who is also Assistant professor at Harvard Medical school in the Departments of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology and Pediatrics and Investigator at the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital calls the new
In traditional preservation methods, donated tissues are stored within a medical-grade refrigeration unit in sealed bags filled with a standard preservation solution.
and medical director of the Missouri Orthopaedic Institute, said that patients with metal and plastic implants often are forced to give up many of the activities they previously enjoyed
and medicine,"says Schiller. With the help of chemical reactions that were previously impossible in the cell,
Medical research can take years to move from bench to bedside as can US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
"Going forward, Huang said there are numerous possibilities for the material to control elastic waves including super-resolution sensors, acoustic and medical hearing devices,
and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation--published online-first by the New england Journal of Medicine.
and parent study principal investigator, Karin V. Rhodes, MD, MS, director of the department of Emergency Medicine's Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research."
and prevention options for stress-related psychiatric and medical conditions and may shed light on the aging process itself. said Dr. Tyrka also the director of research for Butler Hospital l
Wake Forest School of medicine, an established leader in medical education and research; and Wake Forest Innovations,
"said principal investigator Eyal Raz, MD, professor of medicine.""The role of camp formation and action in dendritic cells in the induction of allergic response was added really surprising
co-author Paul Insel, MD, professor of pharmacology and medicine.""It suggested to us that this signaling pathway is involved in other immune-related functions."
professor of medicine and a member of the Veteran's Affairs San diego Healthcare System, said"such molecules
Gas sensors or implantable chips for medical applications which can gather information about blood sugar levels
. and is now a consulting professor of medicine at Stanford began curating a registry of twins for research purposes.
and medical director of the Stanford-Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Vaccine Program. While many previous studies have suggested a powerful genetic component in vaccine responsiveness Davis noted that those studies typically were performed in very young children who had undergone not yet the decades of environmental exposure that appears to reshape the immune system over time.
Other Stanford co-authors of the study are Atul Butte MD Phd associate professor of pediatrics (systems medicine) and of genetics;
In developing regions where the economy is weak and medical services are limited, global health experts say as many as 200 million women want access to long-term,
The medical simulator includes two training models: a stand-alone replica arm and a layered band that can be worn by health workers who act as"patients"during practice sessions."
published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, is the first step in the use of programmable cells for medical diagnosis.
#Drug-induced tissue regeneration demonstrated by scientists A study led by Ellen Heber-Katz, Phd, of the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR), part of Main line Health (MLH),
The study findings were reported in the June 3, 2015, issue of Science Translational Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
"This remarkable work has vast importance in medicine and surgery and spotlights the diverse and important scientific investigations underway at LIMR,"says George Prendergast, Phd, President and CEO of LIMR."
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