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DaVinci Robot For Treating Thyroid Cancer

DaVinci Robot For Treating Thyroid Cancer

Thyroid cancer is a disease which affects 37,000 patients in the US each year according to the National Cancer Institute. It affects female patients more commonly. In fact the incidence in females can be as high as three to one. Patients affected by thyroid cancer are usually younger, in age group 30 to 55 years. [...]

Circular External Fixator To Treat Charcot Foot Disease

Circular External Fixator To Treat Charcot Foot Disease

Charcot foot is a medical condition which occurs in patients having significant nerve damage (neuropathy). This nerve damage limits the ability of the patient to feel pain when foot is injured due to bumping or overdoing an exercise program. As a result of inability to feel the pain, the patient continues to use the injured [...]

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a nuclear medicine tomographic imaging technique which uses gamma rays for detection of cancer or infection. It is different from other imaging techniques as it is able to provide true three dimensional image data of cross-sectional slices through the human body using tomographic reconstruction algorithm to edit images [...]

Electronic Pipettors

12 May 2009

Pipettors are used whenever precise transfer of liquid is required. The electronic pipettors are twice as fast as traditional mechanical pipettors. Here are two companies that sell Electronic Pipettors: Coleparmer USA Scientific

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Instant Immunity With New Vaccine

11 May 2009

A new method of vaccination has been developed by US researchers that provides instant immunity. Currently vaccines can take days or weeks to take effect. The new method can deliver protection against the disease almost instantly by targeting the active part of the virus. Currently this method has only been tested on mice affected by [...]

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Transistors Used To Detect STDs

09 May 2009

Researchers at Universidad Rovira i Virgili have created a biosensor, an electrical and biological device, which is able to selectively detect the Candida albicans yeast in very small quantities. Candida albicans is a diploid fungus (a form of yeast), which is capable of sexual reproduction but not of meiosis, and a causal agent of opportunistic [...]

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UNC NCSU Biomedical Engineering Program

07 May 2009

University of North Carolina and at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University offer a joint biomedical engineering program that is fairly young and was established in 2003. The program offers MS and PhD degrees. It has a 3.3 minimum undergraduate GPA requirement, strong GRE score, and 3 recommendation letters for the admission application. To [...]

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Virginia Tech Wake Forest Biomedical Engineering Program

05 May 2009

Virginia Tech offers a degree in biomedical engineering in a joint program with Wake Forest University. They offer masters and PhD programs with opportunities for undergraduates to get involved. Virginia Tech is mainly an Engineering school and Wake Forest has a strong Medicine school. Combining these has created a powerful biomedical engineering program. Here are [...]

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Autonomous Breast Biopsy Robot

04 May 2009

Researchers at Duke University biomedical engineering department have developed a laboratory robot that can locate the earliest traces of a mass in simulated breast tissue and reach that mass with a biopsy needle. The robot can move in three axis right now. Their next goal is developing a robot that can move in 6 axis. [...]

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