NIBIB-funded researchers created a new, dynamic 3D bioprinted tumor model in a laboratory dish to screen anticancer drugs and study the spread of cancer and primary site tumor growth.
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Science Highlights · April 17, 2019
A report in the journal Radiology underscores the commitment by standards bodies, professional societies, governmental agencies, and private industry to work together to accomplish a set of shared goals in service of patients, who stand to benefit from the potential of AI to bring about innovative imaging technologies.
Science Highlights · April 12, 2019
An NIH-funded team has developed a technique called implosion fabrication to build impressively small and intricate components on the nanoscale.
Science Highlights · April 10, 2019
A million Americans with injury or age-related disabilities need someone to help them eat. Now engineers have taught a robot to pick up food with a fork and gingerly deliver it to a person’s mouth.
Science Highlights · April 2, 2019
Biomedical engineers have developed a smartphone app for anemia screening that can assess blood hemoglobin levels through the window of the user’s fingernail.
Science Highlights · April 2, 2019
Many cancer treatments kill cells throughout the body and cause severe side effects but new work by NIBIB researcher Xiaoyuan ‘Shawn’ Chen, Ph.D., and his team could solve this problem by creating a way to release those toxic compounds only when and where doctors desire.
Grantee News · April 2, 2019
Photoacoustic microscopy technique allows researchers to analyze metabolic characteristics of cancer cells with laser light and high-frequency ultrasonic sensing. Read more from Caltech News.
Grantee News · March 28, 2019
Experimenting with mice, researchers report they have successfully used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to calculate in real time how much of an immunotherapy drug reaches a tumor and what
Science Highlights · March 26, 2019
Researchers funded by NIBIB have designed neuron-like probes that can be implanted and remain viable for long-term use to study and treat the brain.