Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago’s Brain Tumor Center have developed a technique that binds antibodies to titanium dioxide particles for guidance toward tumor sites. Once on target, the particles are activated by light to release free radicals that supposedly...

Unbound Medicine has released the 3rd edition of Davis’s Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, a comprehensive reference aimed at nurses that provides detailed information on how to prepare patients for tests, how to interpret the results, what to do with follow ups, etc. The guide is available on...

Modern medical devices are typically designed for clinics with professional support staff and the knowledge that replacements can be obtained quickly. Moreover, attention is given to high tech, breakthrough machinery that improves the performance over previous generations of similar devices. Though...

For over fifty years, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry featured a walk-through heart so visitors can become acquainted anatomy of the organ. The 16 foot tall model has served generations of Chicago’s high school kids, undoubtedly hundreds of which have become cardiologists since....

Though needle free injection systems exist for a variety of medications, each still has its drawbacks for patient comfort or effectiveness of drug delivery. The Engineer is reporting that a German company called pervormanc has developed an injection system with technology adapted from car airbags that...

Investigators at UC Berkeley have used an X-ray crystallography technique to record short movies of ribosomes motion, which is quite a feat considering these organelles are only 21 nanometers wide. It is hoped that by observing ribosome interaction with mRNA, we could learn how these enigmatic structures...

Victor Gura, a clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, has been developing a portable, wearable dialysis machine, as we’ve been reporting before (see flashbacks below). Now, as more data has been analyzed from clinical trials, Gura’s research team has published additional details...

Even though solid tumors often look like the healthy tissue they’re invading, they almost always present as fibrous densities, hence surgeons use their fingers to feel for a difference in stiffness during extraction. Canadian researchers from the University of Western Ontario and Canadian Surgical...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory have developed a robotic arm and sensor system that is capable of performing some amazing sleight of hand tricks. Using a high speed tracking camera and tactile sensors on the fingers, the robot does millisecond bouncing of ping...

Silver has long been used for its antibacterial properties on burns, diabetes wounds, decubitus ulcers and other serious wounds in danger of infection. But there is one major side effect: the same silver can kill fibroblasts that are necessary for wound repair. Now Ankit Agarwal, a postdoc at the University...

Current methods of delivering chemotherapy and chemoembolization agents have trouble limiting the affected parts of the organ to just the area around the tumor. Dana Blankenhorn, who now blogs at SmartPlanet.com , is reporting that Vascular Designs Inc. out of San Jose, CA has received FDA clearance...