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Robot Hand With Working Tendons Printed in One Go

Robot Hand With Working Tendons Printed in One Go

By Edd Gent - IEEE Spectrum - Multimaterial 3D-printing approach produces functional devices in a single shot A skeletal robotic hand with working ligaments and tendons can now be 3D-printed in one run. The creepy accomplishment was made possible by a new approach to...

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Scientists work to 3D bioprint a human heart in 5 years

Scientists work to 3D bioprint a human heart in 5 years

By Lindsey Theis - Scripps News - A team of Stanford University engineers, cardiologists, and biology experts are at work to bioprint a fully functioning human heart to implant into a pig. Inside one of the labs that focuses on medical innovation at Stanford...

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Brain scans can translate a person’s thoughts into words

Brain scans can translate a person’s thoughts into words

By Rhiannon Williams - MIT Technology Review - A new system was able to capture exact words and phrases from the brain activity of someone listening to podcasts. A noninvasive brain-computer interface capable of converting a person’s thoughts into words could one day...

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CAR-T is not harmful in lymphoma remission phenomenon

CAR-T is not harmful in lymphoma remission phenomenon

By Felix Myhill -  RegMedNet - Whether or not to administer CAR-T cell therapy to cancer patients who go into remission during the therapy manufacturing window has long been a largely uninformed decision. The findings of a recent study reveal that administering CAR-T...

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FDA Approves First CRISPR Treatment in U.S.

FDA Approves First CRISPR Treatment in U.S.

By Alice Park - Time It was only 11 years ago that scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier first described a new way to edit genes, called CRISPR, in a scientific paper. The discovery is so game-changing that the pair earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...

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Student view: Growing mini human hearts from stem cells

Student view: Growing mini human hearts from stem cells

by Michigan State University Brett Volmert is a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. candidate in the College of Engineering. In a recent study, Volmert described a method for the creation and growth of mini human hearts, termed “heart organoids”. He presented the research...

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Engineering stem cells to treat liver disease

By Susan Buckles - Mayo Clinic During clinical rotations in medical school, Kianna Nguyen encountered many patients with liver failure and was struck by a grim reality: Their only hope was a transplant. The shortage of donor organs and therapeutic options was at once...

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Machine could make CAR T-cell therapy more accessible

Machine could make CAR T-cell therapy more accessible

By Drug Target Review Immunotherapy, the promising therapy which harnesses the power of the body’s immune response to target cancer cells, may be advanced by a new minifridge bioreactor developed by researchers at Washington State University. This bioreactor can...

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