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Biomedical Engineering Advances Improve MRI Sensitivity
18/08/2017
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most common and useful medical imaging modalities used in hospitals today. Unlike an X-Ray, an MRI allows physicians and researchers to image soft tissue in the body, allowing them to probe for anatomica...
5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CENTRIFUGE
08/08/2017
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A centrifuge is a piece of equipment that puts an object in rotation around a fixed axis (spins it in a circle), applying a potentially strong force perpendicular to the axis of spin (outward). The centrifuge works using the sedimentation principle, ...
Breakthrough device heals organs with a single touch
08/08/2017
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Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State's College of Engineering have developed a new technology, Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), that can generate any cell type of interest for treatment within the patient's own ...
Researchers make biomedical adhesive inspired by slug slime
08/08/2017
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Being able to repair internal tissue with adhesives would be incredibly useful in the medical world. As of now, those kinds of repairs are limited to sutures and staples, which are far from ideal and while external wounds can be closed with certain g...
5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BOD INCUBATOR
24/07/2017
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BOD Incubator (Bio-Oxygen Demand) are used to maintain temperature for test tissue culture growth, storage of bacterial cultures and incubation where high degree of constant temperature accuracy is required. 1. The Dilution Water Blank (i.e. water ch...
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Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions
10/03/2016
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The CRISPR-Cas9 tool makes genetic engineering cheap and easy, making it a powerful tool that has the potential to be abused. Video provided by NewsyT...