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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a complex condition that requires individualized care to meet the needs of the patient’s current disease state. With available medications sometimes causing ...

https://aimbe.org/researchers-engineer-yeast-to-deliver-drugs-reduce-inflammation-for-possible-inflammatory-bowel-disease-treatment/

Newly developed stretchable electronic skin soon might give robots and other devices the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin. This could prove especially promising for care of the a...

https://aimbe.org/stretchable-skin-could-give-caregiving-robots-a-more-human-touch/

The development of a new fabrication process to create aligned nanofiber hydrogels could offer new possibilities for tissue regeneration after injury and provide a way to test therapeutic drug ca...

https://aimbe.org/aligned-noodles-could-pave-way-for-lab-grown-biological-tissue/

Philip LeDuc, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named a 2023 Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is being recognized for ...

https://aimbe.org/leduc-named-2023-aaas-fellow/

A team of University of Minnesota researchers found that metformin, a drug commonly used to treat diabetes, can decrease the amount of COVID-19 virus in the body and lower the chances of the viru...

https://aimbe.org/u-of-m-study-finds-metformin-reduces-covid-19-viral-load-viral-rebound/

Pursuing a viable alternative to invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) has been a continued research focus of Carnegie Mellon University’s He Lab. In 2019, the group used a noninvasive BCI ...

https://aimbe.org/refined-ai-approach-improves-noninvasive-bci-performance/

In an effort to improve delivery of costly medical treatments, a team of researchers in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has developed a stimulating method that cou...

https://aimbe.org/an-electrifying-discovery-may-help-doctors-deliver-more-effective-gene-therapies/

Guan creates custom nanoparticles to fight inflammation, fibrosis Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a heart attack, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...

https://aimbe.org/smart-nanoparticles-may-be-able-to-deliver-drugs-to-heart-after-heart-attack/

MIT researchers find circadian variations in liver function play an important role in how drugs are broken down in the body. Giving drugs at different times of day could significantly affect how ...

https://aimbe.org/circadian-rhythms-can-influence-drugs-effectiveness/

Researchers have developed a more durable way to repair the dural membrane (dura) that lines the brain and spinal cord. The strong and highly adhesive hydrogel called Dural Tough Adhesive (DTA) s...

https://aimbe.org/researchers-create-new-stronger-way-to-repair-lining-of-brain-and-spinal-cord/

Researchers at Columbia University’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center are investigating a lung cancer treatment that can be delivered directly to the lungs. The treatment, which invol...

https://aimbe.org/researchers-evaluate-lung-cancer-treatment-that-can-be-inhaled/

Researchers have designed a new method for developing immunotherapy drugs using engineered peptides to elicit a natural immune response inside the body. More specifically, they showed, in antigen...

https://aimbe.org/engineered-peptides-stimulate-antitumor-immune-responses-in-mice/

A new radiotheranostic system has the ability to detect and treat ovarian cancer noninvasively, according to new research published in the April issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Combinin...

https://aimbe.org/novel-theranostic-tool-allows-for-noninvasive-identification-and-treatment-of-ovarian-cancer/

Recently, National Science Review published the research work on the synthesis of quantum dots (QDs) in the nucleus of live cells by Dr. Hu Yusi, Associate Professor Wang Zhi-Gang, and Professor ...

https://aimbe.org/how-to-grow-inorganic-functional-nanomaterials-quantum-dots-in-the-nucleus-of-live-cells/

The programme has also been developed with consultation from medical doctors specialising in breast imaging and intervention from Singapore A group of researchers, led by Assoc Prof Ng Yin Kwee f...

https://aimbe.org/singapore-develops-new-programme-to-assist-in-early-breast-cancer-detection/

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Quantum imaging is a growing field that takes advantage of the counterintuitive and “spooky” ability of light particles, or photons, to become linked, or entangled, under specialized circumst...

https://aimbe.org/using-polarization-to-improve-quantum-imaging/

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Cincinnati have combined their expertise in engineering and medicine to create a noninvasive metho...

https://aimbe.org/detecting-brain-tsunamis/

Traditional medical imaging – used to diagnose, monitor or treat certain medical conditions – has long struggled to get clear pictures of patients with dark skin, according to experts. Resear...

https://aimbe.org/medical-imaging-struggles-to-read-dark-skin-researchers-say-theyve-found-a-way-to-make-it-easier/

A deep neural network-based automated detection tool could assist emergency room clinicians in diagnosing COVID-19 effectively using lung ultrasound images. Johns Hopkins researchers have develop...

https://aimbe.org/deep-learning-model-detects-covid-19-infection-using-lung-imaging/