Technology that sends blood sugar-level updates to their smartphones improves outcomes for young people with type 1 diabetes, a Stanford trial shows.
Tag: Applied Biotechnology
Hidden, magnet-powered telescoping rod makes bone-lengthening easier
Orthopedic surgeons recently developed a new device for lengthening kids' bones that greatly reduces the time, pain and infection risk that patients face. It's appealingly …
Non-scientist video gamers’ RNA insights captured in peer-reviewed publication
Five years ago, I wrote about the advent of a new interactive online video game, then called EteRNA (and now simply Eterna), that lets non-scientist …
SPARKing a global movement
Many academic researchers are tenacious, spending years in the lab studying the processes that lead to human diseases in hopes of developing treatments. But they …
Stanford experts slam government’s myopic biosecurity oversight
Just because we can, does that mean we should? In a hard-hitting editorial in Science, three Stanford thinkers - Stanford microbe wizard David Relman, MD; synthetic …
Manu under the microscope
Warning: This video could change the way you look at the world. So if you're willing, take the deep dive into this New Yorker magazine video and story, which capture …
Stanford Genome Technology Center retreat highlights interdepartmental synergy
The recent Stanford Genome Technology Center retreat drove home for me why it's a great idea to put biochemists, geneticists, engineers, and physicians in a …
The rocket men and their breathtaking invention
It’s a gadget straight out of Star Trek — a breath analyzer that may someday quickly and noninvasively detect everything from diabetes to cancers. In …
Peeking into the genome of a deadly cancer pinpoints possible new treatment
Small cell lung cancer is one of the most deadly kinds of cancers. Typically this aggressive disease is diagnosed fairly late in its course, and the …
“Supplying each cell with a scuba tank”: New advances in tissue engineering
Researchers in the U.K. have found a way to make growing synthetic tissue more sustainable. At present, the size of engineered tissues is limited because …
Talking about “mouseheimers,” and a call for new neuroscience technologies
Our ability to technologically assess the brain has room for improvement, according to panelists at the recent Association of Health Care Journalism 2015 conference. Amit …
New retinal implant could restore sight
If your car battery runs out of juice, the car won't run, but that doesn't mean it's time to scrap the car. Similarly (at least …
An inside look at drug development
How are drugs born? If you're really curious about this, you'd be fascinated by the weekly meetings of industry experts and academic researchers taking part …
Corrective braces adjust cell-surface molecules’ positions, fix defective activities within cells
Stanford molecular and cellular physiologist and structural biologist Chris Garcia, PhD, and his fellow scientists have tweaked together a set of molecular tools that work …
An online film festival for medtech inventors
The Stanford Biodesign program recently posted 296 short education videos on medical technology innovation. From needs finding through business planning, it offers entrepreneurs hours of …
Minuscule DNA ring tricks tumors into revealing their presence
An animal study just published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows how, in the not-distant future, doctors may be able to not …