Needle phobes everywhere are one step closer to realizing their dream of painless blood draws, medication delivery, and vaccinations. Developing a way to deliver drugs intravenously with minimal pain and trauma, by someone without medical expertise, has long been a mission of biomedical engineers.
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Professionals and amateurs alike will appreciate the vivid screen, digital zoom, and internal storage of this new affordable microscope. Celestron will be showing off another cool product at CES 2008 with its new LCD Digital Microscope with a retail price of $299.99. The microscope has an integrate
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Dr. John Foster and his team at the University of New South Wales is working on a surgical biofilm to replace sutures for some of the most delicate neurological procedures. Measuring just 50 microns, the film is placed on a surgical wound and exposed to an infrared laser, which heats the film just
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Viral icosahedral capsids (i.e. having polyhedron shape with 20 faces) is a common sight in the microscopic world. In his latest post, Michael Berger from Nanowerk is reporting about a chemical simulation, devised by researchers from the Scripps Research Institute and Technion-Israel Institute of T
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Scientists at the McGill University in Canada have designed a method to quickly and easily detect the presence of malaria parasite in blood. The new technique should speed up detection compared to previous methods, and may become the new standard in malaria screening. Current detection techniques r
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The Information Commissioner's Office has found the Department of Health in breach of the Data Protection Act following an investigation into a security breach in the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) website, and warns the department faces potential prosecution.
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Research at Massachusetts General Hospital has led to a microchip that can quickly sort through elusive circulating tumor cells (CTC's) found within the blood of cancer patients. The existence of CTCs has been known since the mid-19th century, but since they are so hard to find, it has not been pos
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MIT researchers are developing a technique to systematically grow blood vessels in a lab, perhaps one day providing on-demand replacement capillary networks, or even arteries and veins, to treat a variety of conditions. From MIT News: The team has created a surface that can serve as a template to g
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Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are reporting in the latest online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they identified genes responsible for packaging of fat into intracellular lipid droplets. This discovery might offer new p
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