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The material can be used to make medical devices with intrinsic healing properties, which could reduce tissue damage.

Researchers revealed that radiotracer PET/CT scans that targets prostate-specific membrane antigen was best at detecting metastatic prostate cancer.

Researchers at MIT have engineered capsules that could protect insulin-producing cells, derived from stem cells, from being attacked by the immune system.

Life-science imaging broke barriers this year, as scientists built upon microscopy approaches to peer ever deeper into living tissues. In October, Purdue University’s Ji-Xin Cheng and colleagues reported they had greatly increased the speed of collecting images—from minutes to seconds—using in vivo vibrational spectroscopic imaging, a technique that obviates the need for fluorescence.

Columbia University researchers use electrical signals on heart cells engineered from human stem cells to regulate and synchronize cells that support heartbeat.

Researchers used a cryo-electron microscope to find appendages on E. coli that allow it to withstand fluid flow and establish infection in the urinary tract.

A team of researchers have adapted optical coherence tomography to detect bacterial biofilms often associated with ventilator-assisted pneumonia in the ICU.

Cornell University biomedical engineers have discovered specific mechanical stresses activated the growth factors responsible for proper heart valve formation.

Researcher studies will enable better ways to treat debilitating and costly orthopedic problems like meniscus tears and age-related tissue degeneration.

Minor variants of flu strains, which are not typically targeted in vaccines, carry a bigger viral punch than previously realized, a team of scientists has found. Its research, which examined samples from the 2009 flu pandemic in Hong Kong, shows that these minor strains are transmitted along with the major strains and can replicate and elude immunizations.