Medical Xpress

MAY 17, 2023

A study by researchers at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering shows that mechanical deformation of medically implantable materials—such as bending or twisting—can have a big impact on the formation of potentially harmful biofilms.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 12, 2023

New research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. In the 1835 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea," a princess is deemed authentic because of her sensitivity to a pea placed under 20 mattresses on her bed.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 8, 2023

Combining discoveries in cancer immunology with sophisticated genetic engineering, Columbia University researchers have created a sort of "bacterial suicide squad" that targets tumors, attracting the host's own immune cells to the cancer to destroy it.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 22, 2023

Repairing or replacing injured tendons or similar load-bearing tissues represents one of the major challenges in clinical medicine. Natural tendons are water-rich tissues exhibiting outstanding mechanical strength and durability.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 18, 2023

Amid headlines about artificial intelligence's implications for everything from education to the future of work itself, Abhinav Jha, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering and of radiology at the School of Medicine, both at Washington University in St.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 18, 2023

Even as biomedical engineer Anirban Sen Gupta refines artificial platelets to stem traumatic bleeding, he and his colleagues are seeking new uses for their synthetic solution.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

Bleeding represents a critical challenge across diverse medical scenarios, underscoring the urgent need for the development of advanced hemostatic materials. Emerging opportunities in anti-cancer drug delivery, food science, bone regeneration, and tissue engineering are also discussed. © 2025 Wiley‐VCH GmbH.

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AMMD

JUNE 12, 2025

Your thyroid is your body’s engine. We do not mask symptoms with medication. Another myth is that once you start thyroid medication, you’re “stuck” on it for life. Functional medicine shows there is potential to improve underlying causes and potentially reduce medication dependency. Trust me, you are not alone.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The NPRM was consistent with the Department of Health and Human Services’ finding that marijuana has a currently accepted medical use in the U.S. Schedules of Controlled Substances: Rescheduling of Marijuana, 89 Fed. 44,597 (May 21, 2024). and its views about abuse potential and physical or psychological dependence.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

However, things are moving fast, and success doesn’t come easy for the pioneers of any medical field. Running trials in animals will take additional engineering and safety tests. Developing bionic eyes with fractal-patterned electrodes for reversing blindness We have seen fascinating developments as well.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 20, 2023

Progressive loss of neurons is the underlying cause for a diverse spectrum of severe diseases called neurodegenerative diseases, which include Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and retinitis pigmentosa.

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AMMD

JUNE 5, 2025

I understand how frustrating it can be to visit doctor after doctor, only to feel dismissed, rushed, or told that lifelong medication is your only option for hypothyroidism. After all, your thyroid is your body’s engine. I have been there and know how it feels!

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Medical Xpress

MAY 2, 2023

In July of 2022, a Google engineer claimed that an AI chatbot he was working with had become self-aware. Rumors of artificial intelligence becoming sentient abound. The same AI recently passed the Turing Test, once considered the gold standard for determining if something was human.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 4, 2025

Collaborative research led by investigators at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center defines a novel approach to understanding how certain proteins called transcription factors determine which genetic programs will drive cell growth and maturation. The study is published in the journal Science.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For many of us, the act of breathing comes naturally. Behind the scenes, our diaphragm—the dome-shaped muscle that lies just beneath the ribcage—works like a slow and steady trampoline, pushing down to create a vacuum for the lungs to expand and draw air in, then relaxing as air is pushed out.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers at UCSF have developed a novel, potentially life-saving approach that may prevent antibodies from triggering immune rejection of engineered therapeutic and transplant cells.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered molecules that act like "cellular glue," allowing them to direct in precise fashion how cells bond with each other. The discovery represents a major step toward building tissues and organs, a long-sought goal of regenerative medicine.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In recent years, genetically re-engineered immune cells—armed with molecular weaponry to recognize and destroy tumor cells—have changed the landscape of cancer treatment.

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Pamela Wible MD

MAY 21, 2025

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 18, 2023

Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Columbia University Irving Medical Center have invented a new RNA sequencing method that achieves high-quality results from small volumes of frozen tumor specimens.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Seung-Kyun Kang from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University has developed a strain sensor with record-breaking sensitivity in collaboration with researchers from Dankook University, Ajou University, and Purdue University. A research team led by Prof.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 5, 2023

A new study by Burke Neurological Institute (BNI), Weill Cornell Medicine, finds that activation of MAP2K signaling by genetic engineering or non-invasive repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) promotes corticospinal tract (CST) axon sprouting and functional regeneration after spinal cord injury (SCI) in mice.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a miniature and flexible soft robotic arm that could be used to 3D-print biomaterial directly onto organs inside a person's body.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 8, 2025

A team of cognitive neuroscientists and acoustic engineers at Adam Mickiewicz University, in Poland, has found no evidence that wind turbine noise causes mental impairment.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 16, 2023

Cancer patients might one day benefit from being administered immune cells from healthy donors. But as things stand, receiving donor cells can cause severe or even fatal immune reactions. A researcher at ETH Zurich has now developed a technology that avoids these.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A team of artificial intelligence engineers, in collaboration with a team of physicians from Penn State Heart and Vascular Institute, is working to develop novel algorithms for point-of-care, in-house use and for technology licensing.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The findings are published in the Journal of Neural Engineering. The technique, called "DeepFocus," uses transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) on the scalp and transnasal electrical stimulation (TnES) to achieve more accurate electrical stimulation in the brain.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed an electronic patch that can monitor biomolecules in deep tissues, including hemoglobin.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering have developed a "heart attack on a chip," a device that could one day serve as a testbed to develop new heart drugs and even personalized medicines. Researchers at the University of Southern California Alfred E.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 3, 2022

A collaborative team led by researchers from Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (GOSH), London and including researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and BOA Biomedical in Cambridge has re-engineered the process of microbial pathogen identification in blood samples from pediatric sepsis (..)

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 1, 2025

Research from the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering aims could uncover why some people with DS develop dementia while others do not providing insight that could ultimately benefit the entire DS community.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 25, 2023

Engineers and physicians have developed a wearable ultrasound device that can assess both the structure and function of the human heart. The portable device, which is roughly the size of a postage stamp, can be worn for up to 24 hours and works even during strenuous exercise.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 3, 2023

West Virginia University engineers are taking a major step into "bioelectronic medicine," a cutting-edge approach that uses electric current as a treatment for pain and disease, with the development of MouseFlex. The device will facilitate research into a technique called "vagus nerve stimulation" or VNS.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The results have just been published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. A team of researchers has developed a "gut-on-chip" (a miniature model of the human intestine on a chip-sized device) capable of reproducing the main features of intestinal inflammation and of predicting the response of melanoma patients to immunotherapy treatment.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered T cells to produce a potent anti-cancer cytokine, but only when they encounter tumor cells. The immunotherapy eliminated melanoma and pancreatic cancer in mice without major side effects, and it offers a promising new strategy for fighting these and other hard-to-treat cancers.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 19, 2021

Katrina Armstrong Dr. Katrina Armstrong is the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a founding member of the 501c3 Women of Impact dedicated to advancing women leaders in healthcare.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Engineers at the University of Waterloo have developed artificial intelligence (AI) technology to predict if women with breast cancer would benefit from chemotherapy prior to surgery.

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