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Cassie Kelly
Jul 26, 20194 min read
3D Bioprinter Prints Healthy Skin onto Patients in Minutes
Skin is one organ that varies greatly from patient to patient. Unlike damaged livers or lungs, which can be replaced by a donor,...


Cassie Kelly
Jun 14, 20193 min read
How to Teach Soft Robot Navigation
Perception is a tricky thing. Humans use all their senses to learn about their location and the objects with which they interact. If one...


Cassie Kelly
Jan 25, 20194 min read
Ovipositor Inspires New Needle for Surgery
The same mechanism that enables a parasitic wasp to lay her eggs inside a caterpillar without killing it could one day help surgeons...


Cassie Kelly
Nov 12, 20183 min read
New Approach Improves Treatment of Deadly Childhood Brain Cancer
Treating diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a deadly form of brain cancer, is so difficult that less than 1 percent of children survive...

Cassie Kelly
Sep 4, 20184 min read
Low-Cost Haptic Needle Punctures Need for Expensive Training Gear
Sometimes, it’s the simplest things that take the longest to master. Which is why a new haptic device that simulates the insertion of a...


Cassie Kelly
May 14, 20183 min read
Simple Solution Supercharges T-Cell Production
By using a softer material as a scaffold, biomedical engineers Lance Kam and Helen Lu of Columbia University can generate a dramatically...


Cassie Kelly
Jan 29, 20184 min read
A More Natural Approach to Passive Ankle Prostheses
A research lab has found an innovative way to close the gap between low-tech passive ankle prostheses and high-tech robotics. A morning...


Cassie Kelly
Oct 9, 20173 min read
New Wound Care Product Offers the Next Step in Healing
A new wound dressing fights infection and uses human cells to regrow tissue without scarring. A new antimicrobial wound dressing that...

Cassie Kelly
Aug 28, 20175 min read
Revolutionary Liquid Biopsies Can Find the Cells that Matter Most
A cancer research company's "No Cell Left Behind" technology can identify just five cells in a sample of 30 million. Cancer is...


Cassie Kelly
Jul 24, 20173 min read
Forcing the Immune System to Attack Cancer
With a floor-length list of side effects and the uncertainty of whether chemotherapy and radiation will work, patients are turning to...


Cassie Kelly
May 15, 20173 min read
Seeing Is More Than Believing with Biosensing Contact Lenses
New biosensing contact lenses are designed to detect glucose levels for diabetics and hold thousands of other possibilities. Could...


Cassie Kelly
Apr 10, 20173 min read
Big Step Forward in Powered Ankle Prostheses
A new model from the U.K. will allow amputees to pick up their foot and walk up slopes. The human ankle and foot have 26 bones, 33...
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