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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...
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...
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...
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