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How Nanomaterials Are Reshaping Biomedical Technology

How Nanomaterials Are Reshaping Biomedical Technology

Author(s)3: David L. Chandler
How Nanomaterials Are Reshaping Biomedical Technology 618 372 IEEE Pulse

Three leading figures in the world of nanotechnology research, commercialization, and policy were invited by IEEE Pulse to discuss how this rapidly emerging area has been shaping biomedical technology in recent years,…

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At the Interface of Disciplines

At the Interface of Disciplines

Author(s)3: Shannon Fischer
At the Interface of Disciplines 618 372 IEEE Pulse

Five years ago, Jeffrey Karp sat down to a dinner party with Massachusetts General Hospital dermatologist R. Rox Anderson. The two started talking, and by the end of the evening,…

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Miniature Medicine

Miniature Medicine

Author(s)3: Ravi Ghanshyam Patel, Ankur Singh
Miniature Medicine 618 372 IEEE Pulse

The 21st century has embraced miniaturization and witnessed the emergence of multidisciplinary nanotechnology in the medical field, popularly known as nanomedicine. It has long been established that chronic infections such as hepatitis…

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Small and Bright

Small and Bright

Author(s)3: Lei Yang, Thomas J. Webster
Small and Bright 618 372 IEEE Pulse

Transforming diamond sizes from the micron regime into a few billionths of a meter probably doesn’t increase their value in jewelry, but it certainly adds an extraordinary value in numerous physical science,…

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On the Horizon

On the Horizon

Author(s)3: Davide Barbieri, Joost D. de Bruijn, Clemens A. van ­Blitterswijk, Huipin Yuan
On the Horizon 618 372 IEEE Pulse

Our bodies have the amazing ability to self-trigger tissue regeneration when required to repair or renew tissues. Adult stem cells emerge from their niche and are instructed by local environmental…

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A Doctor in the Palm of Your Hand

A Doctor in the Palm of Your Hand

Author(s)3: David L. Chandler
A Doctor in the Palm of Your Hand 618 372 IEEE Pulse

Suppose you were out on a small boat, 100 mi from shore, with a few friends. Suddenly, one of them begins coughing hard and complaining of aches and pains and…

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The Race to Build a Better Shoe

Author(s)3: D. Casey Kerrigan
The Race to Build a Better Shoe 618 372 IEEE Pulse

For years, shoes have been made around the same stock designs without an appreciation of the forces during walking and running that are related to lower extremity injury—including debilitating knee…

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The Super Aged Society

The Super Aged Society

Author(s)3: Sachiko Kamiyama
The Super Aged Society 618 372 IEEE Pulse

Humankind today is facing an array of challenges—global climate change, the depletion of natural resources, water scarcity, and an aging population, just to name a few. It is more important…

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Innovating Openly

Author(s)3: Carol Cruzan Morton
Innovating Openly 618 372 IEEE Pulse

Several years ago, Stanford University researchers stumbled across something unexpected. In the course of examining the autopsied brain tissue of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), a team in Lawrence Steinman’s laboratory…

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