A novel sensor designed by MIT researchers could dramatically accelerate the process of diagnosing sepsis, a leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals that kills nearly 250,000 patients annually. Sepsis occurs when…
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Latest 10 Inventions using CRISPR gene Editing
CRISPR: “CRISPR” stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which are the hallmark of a bacterial defense system which forms the basis for the popular CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology. CRISPR-Cas9 is…
7 Robotic inventions for Medical field
1.STAR Robot for “Soft Tissue” Surgery: Johns Hopkins University researchers developed a robotic surgical system called the Smart Tissue Automation Robot (STAR). It features a 3D imaging system and a near-infrared sensor…
MIT’s oxygen-tracking improves Bioartificial pancreas for Diabetes Patients
Many Diabetes Patients are required to take insulin injection daily. To avoid this painful step, researchers are exploring alternate ways. One such promising alternate way is, transplanting pancreatic islet cells into the…
Human cells reprogrammed to create insulin
Scientists have found that Pancreatic cells that don’t normally produce insulin can be modified to do so, and to help control blood sugar levels in diabetic mice. The destruction of a single…