Articles By Joel Lindsey

31. Gold Nanoparticles Could Enable Antibacterial Implants 7/8/2014

    In a study conducted by researchers at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics — part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences — scientists have devised a way to use gold nanoparticles as implantable antibacterial agents.

32. New Nanoparticles Simultaneously Kill Cancer And Strengthen Bones 7/7/2014

    A collaborative research team made up of scientists from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) has devised a new method for helping to prevent and treat bone cancer that uses nanoparticles to deliver drugs directly to cancer cells in the bone.

33. New 'Bio-Bots' Move Using Muscle Cells And Electricity 7/7/2014

    Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have designed “bio-bots” that use a combination of muscle cells and electrical signals to move. The tiny biological machines could prove beneficial in a variety of medical applications, functioning as surgical robots, smart implants, or drug delivery vehicles.

34. Genetically Engineered Protein Could Improve Optogenetics 7/3/2014

    Researchers at MIT have created a new light-sensitive protein that could make it possible to noninvasively control brain neurons using a light source located outside the skull.

35. Supercooling Technique Extends Life Of Transplant Organs 7/2/2014

    In an ongoing study, a team of researchers affiliated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) may have devised a new method of organ preservation that could dramatically increase the length of time an organ can be stored outside the body before being transplanted.

36. Will Stretchy Hydrogels Usher In A New Era Of Implantables? 7/2/2014

    A group of scientists from Japan’s Tohoku University has developed the first pliant and durable electrode-hydrogel hybrid — a device that researchers say could greatly impact the fields of wearable and implantable medical devices, as well as tissue engineering.

37. Using Femtosecond Lasers And Gold Nanoparticles For Targeted Drug Delivery 7/2/2014

    A joint team of researchers from Japan’s Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and the University of Otago, New Zealand has developed a new method for administering drugs to highly specific target sites using a combination of laser technology, nanoparticles, and neuroscience.

38. Researchers Discover How Pathogen Clogs Medical Devices, Infects Patients 7/1/2014

    A team of researchers from Princeton University has studied the growth patterns of the Staphylococcus aureus pathogen — notorious for causing infections in patients using medical devices — and may have pinpointed what allows these bacteria to so effectively become both disruptive to treatment and infectious.

39. Simple Blood Test Could Predict Breast Cancer Years In Advance 6/30/2014

    In an ongoing project at University College London (UCL), researchers may have identified an epigenetic signature in the blood of some women that could be an accurate predictor of certain types of breast cancer.

40. Nanosubmarines To Deliver Drugs To Living Cells 6/30/2014

    Researchers at the University of Miami have constructed nanoparticles designed to self-assemble and interact with other particles in such a way that could make them ideal for transporting drugs to specifically targeted cells.