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Chandra Boon's List: Medical Technology
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Feb 18, 11
Blog about medical technology written by MDs and biomedical engineers
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Feb 09, 11
Immortal micro-organisms
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Mar 10, 11
Article describes the winning inventions in the fields of medicine and security. The inventions were designed by university students.
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portable imaging device and software that can inexpensively turn a computer or smart phone into a high-resolution digital microscope.
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Zheng adapted super-resolution image-processing technology to create an on-chip microscope—a sub-pixel resolving optofluidic microscope (SROFM)—made up of a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor connected via a USB port to a computer loaded with image-enhancing software. His primary objective is to provide doctors in developing countries with a means to scan residents for malaria at a cost of about 50 cents per blood sample.
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Apr 12, 11
Saving the World, One Molecule at a Time
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a new subset of scientists known as synthetic biologists are trying to turn single-celled organisms like bacteria and yeast into tiny chemical factories
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applies engineering principles to biological systems, represents the cutting edge of genetic research. And Jay Keasling, a chemical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, is leading the pack
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