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Performing Brain Surgery with Focused Sound Waves
ExAblate 4000 MR-guided High-Intensity Focused UltrasoundInsightecImagine going in for a brain procedure where you have to endure neither an invasive, cut-you-up procedure nor radiation treatment. When...
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Synthetic Molecules Trick Body Into Improved Immune Response to HIV, Cancer
HIV BuddingCDCWhen it comes to eluding detection, HIV and cancer cells are at the top of the class. As such, the few treatments currently available to sufferers of HIV or prostate cancer are generally...
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Ultrasound Beams Could Destroy Stroke-Causing Blood Clots in the Brain
ExAblate 4000 MR-guided High-Intensity Focused UltrasoundInsightecPhysicians usually rely on surgery or drugs to bust blood clots in the brain that might otherwise cause a stroke, but sound waves might...
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MIT's New Multifunctional Fibers Combine Piezoelectric Sensitivity with Heat...
A New Multifunctional MaterialResearch Laboratory of Electronics at MIT/Greg Hren PhotographMIT's multilayered optical fibers can also sense and produce pressure or acoustic waves.Mashing together...
View ArticleBionic Dick Cheney Technically Has No Pulse
Former VP Dick Cheney has gone bionic. During a recent heart surgery, doctors implanted a ventricular assist device to augment Cheney's failing ticker. But it also gives his critics another punchline...
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World's Largest Video Protein Database Promises Rapid Drug Development
Proteins in MotionImage courtesy of Institute for Research in Biomedicine-IRBA new database developed by Spanish biologists is giving pharmaceutical quick access to protein structure data that could...
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Microrockets Can Zip Around the Human Stomach, Powered by Hydrogen Bubbles
Microrocketsvia PhysOrgTiny machines that can enter our bloodstreams and do work inside of our bodies are a staple of both science fiction and real-world biomedical science, as MEMS and other...
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This Microchip Heart Has A Rare Genetic Disease
Organ-on-a-ChipWyss InstituteThis chip device is not the same as the heart-on-a-chip described below. This device was made by the Wyss Institute, which was involved in making the heart chip.It doesn't...
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This 3D Printed Flower Responds To Its Environment
Technology It's alive! (But not really) Researchers have developed a 3-D printing technique to create material that will change shape in response to its environment, mimicking plants’ ability to...
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