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Biomaterials Network
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In 2013 we are celebrating our 15th anniversary! For an internet portal 15 years is old age. Biomat.net has changed considerably over the years, from essentially a newsletter, back in 1998, when almost no one had a website, to a blog on facebook. Although the relevance of internet portals has decreased we have been trying to keep up with the ways people get connected by creating our linkedin and facebook pages, through which most of our visitors and pageviewers access our news. We hope to be able to continue stimulating our readers in this increasingly exciting field for a few more years and to be worthy of your trust and loyalty. |
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Bioengineer.org
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For the first time, scientists reporting in Nature Medicine have created lab-grown kidneys in rats that produce urine after transplantation. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Borrowing from microfabrication techniques used in the semiconductor industry, MIT and Harvard Medical School (HMS) engineers have developed a simple, inexpensive way to create three-dimensional brain tissues in a lab dish, using brain cells taken from the primary cortex of rats. |
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New Scientist
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A type of sweat gland unique to humans contains a reservoir of adult stem cells that can be recruited to repair wounds. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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University of Sheffield researchers have developed a new method for producing membranes to help in the grafting of stem cells onto the eye, mimicking structural features of the eye itself. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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New method greatly expands repertoire of nanobiotechnology applications in medicine and beyond. Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created more than 100 three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures using DNA building blocks that function like Lego bricks — a major advance from the two-dimensional (2D) structures the same team built a few months ago. |
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Wall Street Journal
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From cancer treatments to new devices to gene therapy, a look at six medical innovations that are poised to transform the way we fight disease. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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The striking similarity to Terminator T-1000 is purely coincidental. A new material created by Cornell researchers is so soft that it can flow like a liquid and then, strangely, return to its original shape. |
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New Scientist
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Injecting specific sequences of RNA into the hearts of mice damaged by heart attack can help the organ repair itself by producing new muscle tissue. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Has potential for cancer (and other cells) and gene therapy, and bone-marrow transplantation. Researchers at Rice University have found a way to kill some diseased cells, including cancer cells, and treat others at the same time. The process, activated by a pulse of laser light, leaves neighboring healthy cells untouched. |
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Medical Product Manufacturing News
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In the field of interventional cardiology, drug-eluting balloons and flexible electronics mounted to balloons are among the hottest new technologies. While coronary stents—both the bare metal and drug eluting varieties—have revolutionized the field of cardiology, they are not without their drawbacks. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in genetically engineering algae to produce what has been a complex and expensive human therapeutic drug used to treat cancer. |
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Medical Product Manufacturing News
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By developing prosthetic devices that rely on implanting electrodes directly in nerves and remaining muscle, Chalmers University researchers aim to provide amputees with greater control over prosthetic movements. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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A new device about the size of a business card could allow health care providers to test for insulin and other blood proteins, cholesterol, and even signs of viral or bacterial infection all at the same time — with one drop of blood. |
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Popular Science
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This nanofabric dissolves in the body, releasing antivirals and blocking sperm. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Reducing the time required to create and test cancer and other medications. Using a simple “drag-and-drop” computer interface and DNA self-assembly techniques, Parabon NanoLabs researchers have developed a new automated method of drug development that could reduce the time required to create and test medications, with the support of an NSF Technology Enhancement for Commercial Partnerships grant. |
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New Scientist
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Converting text to Braille images sent electronically to the retina could allow some blind people to decode signs in their vicinity. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Some of the waste that humans flush away every day could become a powerful source of brain cells to study disease, and may even one day be used in therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Can deliver a force 1000 times greater than human muscle of the same weight. A powerful new microscale actuator that can flex like a miniature beckoning finger has been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Modeling human disease, testing potential new drugs are hot research areas at MIT. Tissue engineering research at MIT is now largely focused on creating tissue that can be used in the lab to model human disease and test potential new drugs. |
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Medical Product Manufacturing News
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A new hybrid printer developed by researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM; Winston-Salem, NC) simplifies the production of implantable cartilage, according to an article published by the Institute of Physics (London). |
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New Scientist
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Control over movement has been improved by mimicking the passage of nerve signals to muscles.
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New Scientist
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Imagine curing inherited conditions before they even arise. We have the gene and stem-cell therapies to do it now – if only we dare use them on unborn babies. |
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Medical Product Manufacturing News
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Sonny Vu, CEO and co-founder of Misfit Wearables. People don’t generally like to wear electronics, observes Sonny Vu, who is the cofounder of AgaMatrix, a maker of innovative iPhone-interfacing blood-glucose meters that won the Red Dot Design award in 2011 for product design. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Can be run forward or in reverse, depending on where electrons are injected. Researchers have created a reversible rotor that sits atop a ball bearing — a single ruthenium atom, Ars Technica reports. |
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Medical Product Manufacturing News
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The potential for 3-D printing to transform medicine are substantial. To cite but a few examples: the technology can be used to make custom implants, “print” virtually any drug, drug delivery devices, and even living tissue. Earlier this year, medical researchers successfully implanted a 3-D printed jaw into an 83-year old woman. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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An electron microscope has imaged threads of DNA directly or the first time, New Scientist reports. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Investigators at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have invented a way to directly image biological structures at nanometer-resolution in their natural habitats (a liquid environment). |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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New light-focusing device may lead to radical improvements in hard drives, microscopes, and communications. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) engineers have created a device that can focus light into a point just a few nanometers (billionths of a meter) across — an achievement they say may lead to next-generation applications in computing, communications, and imaging. |
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Medical Product Manufacturing News
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Last year, a new technology was unveiled that could potentially enable clinicians to detect real-time chemical changes in the body. A proof-of-concept sensor array incorporating three types of sensors would enable the device to measure pH, glucose, and lactate. Such a device could be used to monitor glucose levels in diabetics or the microneedles could be incorporated into sensor arrays that could enable painless patient monitoring of a variety of parameters. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Would it be possible to integrate biological components with advanced robotics, using biological cells to do machine-like functions and interface with an electronic nervous system — in effect, creating an autonomous, multi-cellular biohybrid robot? |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have surgically implanted a pacemaker-like device into the brain of a patient in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, the first such operation in the United States. |
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Medical Product Manufacturing News
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Few materials in recent memory have gotten as much attention as graphene, a material composed of a sheets of carbon that is one atom thick. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Could allow for studying individual proteins and unraveling them. A technique known as optical trapping uses beams of light as tweezers to hold and manipulate tiny particles. Stanford researchers have found a new way to trap particles smaller than 10 nanometers — and potentially down to just a few atoms in size — which until now have escaped light’s grasp. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Can greatly reduce DNA consumption and the time it takes to generate sequencing data from small genomes. For the first time, researchers have sequenced DNA molecules without the need for the standard pre-sequencing workflow known as library preparation. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Deep-sea microbes that thrive in high temperatures are key to light-activated catalysis. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functioning. |
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New Scientist
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Next year will see the first person receive induced pluripotent stem cells?– "rewound" adult cells that can grow into any tissue in the body. |
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Popular Science
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Global patterns reveal the myth of a "disease of affluence". |
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The Scientist
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The Scientist’s 5th installment of its annual competition attracted submissions from across the life science spectrum. Here are the best and brightest products of the year. |
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Popular Science
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An at-a-glance summary of the year's 25 most important scientific events. |
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The Scientist
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Apps and software for improving lab productivity. |
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New Scientist
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Doing a doctorate isn't just about your thesis. If you're smart, you'll be laying the foundations for your future career. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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Are you med-Cureus? Stanford neurosurgeon John Adler, MD, has launched Cureus, a new open-source medical journal that leverages crowdsourcing to make scientific research more readily available to the general public. |
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The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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“Many engineers, including me, think that some time around 2050, we will be able to make very high quality links between the brains and machines. … If your mind is so well connected, you could inhabit a new body, without having to vacate your existing one,” suggests futurologist Ian Pearson. |
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10-12 October
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Porto, Portugal |
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May 27-31
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Beijing, China
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Nantes, France
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Umang Island, Indonesia
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Rome, Italy
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Lillafured, Hungary
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Porto, Portugal
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Faenza, Italy
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Porto, Portugal
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Venice, Italy
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Leipzig, Germany
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