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The entire female menstrual cycle can now be replicated in a Petri dish
Providing researchers with a platform to study drugs and diseases influenced by these hormones
A Medical Lab In A Music Box
One of ten brilliant innovations from our 2015 Invention Awards
This Microchip Heart Has A Rare Genetic Disease
The heart was created, in part, using skin cells from people with Barth syndrome.
A Sliver of Human Brain in a Chip, and Other Organ Simulators
An artificial, working brain smaller than a grain of rice, a heart on a stick the size of a micro … Continued
A Wirelessly Controlled Pharmacy Dispenses Drugs From Within Your Abdomen
Future pharmacies will be inside our bodies
Smartphone Touchscreens Could Analyze Biological Smears to Diagnose Illness
The lab-on-a-chip model has been praised as the future of simplified diagnostic medicine–place a sample of saliva, blood, or urine … Continued
To Check Astronaut Health, ESA Is Developing a Blood Analysis Lab-On-A-Chip That Works in Space
Anyone willing to travel to remote places for the sake of science has to accept some health problems, be it … Continued
Tiny Chip Made of Paper Diagnoses Diseases and Costs Just a Penny
Puts medical diagnostic tools at the fingertips of everyday folk
“Whispering Gallery” Microresonator Can Measure Individual Nanoparticles
The sensor on a chip can both detect and measure single particles smaller than a single virus
FDA Approves Gene-Testing Device for Doctor’s-Office Prescription Screening
A desktop instrument can analyze genetic variations in blood samples within hours
