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| Jun 27, 2026 | Made in Abyss Awakening Mystery: Decompression Sickness and Stem Cell Science Map Its Curse | By William Chan
Published: Jun 27 2026, 11:43 AM EDT
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| Jun 15, 2026 | Rejuvenate Bio Accelerates Gene Therapy with $6M Funding, Merck Partnership | Rejuvenate Bio, a San Diego biotechnology innovator, secured $6 million in vital financing. This capital propels its pioneering gene therapy platform. The company targets age-related and chronic diseases. Focus areas include companion anima... |
| Jun 12, 2026 | Rejuvenate Bio Closes $6 Million Financing And Strategic R&D Collaboration With Merck Animal Health | Lifespan Vision Ventures announced that its portfolio company, Rejuvenate Bio, has completed a $6 million financing round and entered into a strategic research and development collaboration with Merck Animal Health, marking a key milestone ... |
| Jun 11, 2026 | Lifespan Portfolio Company Rejuvenate Bio Closes $6 Million Financing and R&D Collaboration with Merck Animal Health | Milestone financing and R&D collaboration advances gene therapy programs targeting chronic and age-related diseases in companion animals.
NORWALK, Conn., June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Lifespan Vision Ventures (LVV), an investment firm f... |
| May 20, 2026 | The Boys Finale Kill-Switch Virus Mirrors CRISPR Bioweapon Category U.S. Intelligence Called WMD-Level Risk | By William Chan
Published: May 20 2026, 11:20 AM EDT
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| May 19, 2026 | Gundam Wing Returns as Orbital Metal Printing and Brain Implants Move From Fiction to Working Hardware | By William Chan
Published: May 19 2026, 17:20 PM EDT
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| Apr 7, 2026 | HexemBio Raises $10.4M in Seed Funding | HexemBio, a NYC-based biotechnology company developing blood stem cell rejuvenation therapies, raised $10.4M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Draper Associates with participation from SOSV, Seraphim, and other investors.
The company in... |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Ненужные технологии | В 1963 году люксембургский учёный Хьюго Гернсбек изобрёл VR-очки для телевизора. Кстати, в честь этого плодовитого изобретателя названа литературная премия «Хьюго»
Принято считать, что научно-технический прогресс (НТП) всегда идёт вперёд, н... |
| Mar 23, 2026 | UCSF and Biohub Scientists Develop New Material to Grow More Consistent Lab Organs | Scientists at UC San Francisco and Biohub have developed a seaweed-derived material that helps miniature lab-grown organs form more consistently, a development researchers say could advance disease research and move medicine closer to manuf... |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Teams Selected by ARPA-H to Develop Patient-Specific Bioprinted Organs | The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has announced the first recipients of its Personalized Regenerative Immunocompetent Nanotechnology Tissue (PRINT) program. The selected research teams from Carnegie Mellon University... |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Attivare Therapeutics: $6.6 Million Gates Foundation Grant Received To Develop Longer Lasting Malaria Vaccine | Attivare Therapeutics said it has received a $6.6 million grant from the Gates Foundation to advance a next-generation malaria vaccine designed to deliver longer-lasting protection. The Natick, Massachusetts-based company said the program w... |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Attivare Therapeutics Receives $6.6M Grant | Attivare Therapeutics, a Natick, MA-based company treating tumors with low immunogenicity, received $6.6M in grant from Gates Foundation.
The company intends to allocate the amount for the advancement of a new long-lasting malaria vaccine, ... |
| Oct 16, 2025 | Lasso Raises USD6.5M in Funding | Lasso, a Boston, MA-based foodtech startup, raised USD6.5m in funding.
The round was led by Rhapsody Venture Partners with participation from Safar Partners, and Claridge Venture Partners.
The company intends to use the funds to bring its t... |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Lasso: $6.5 Million Closed To Develop Protein-Packed Foods Using Fiber Spinning Technology | Lasso, a new food technology company, has emerged from stealth with $6.5 million in funding to transform the consumer packaged goods industry through its proprietary fiber spinning system, Lasso SpinTech. The Boston-based company aims to re... |
| Jun 19, 2025 | Bridging the Gap: Innovations in Organ Bioprinting and Social Connection | In a world where technology often feels cold and distant, two groundbreaking initiatives are emerging to tackle pressing human needs: the quest for functional organs through bioprinting and the fight against loneliness through social innova... |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Stanford Develops 3D Printing Algorithm to Advance Vascular Design for Organ Bioprinting | Stanford researchers have taken a major step toward addressing one of the biggest hurdles in organ bioprinting: building realistic vascular networks capable of sustaining lab-grown tissue. Their new platform, published June 12 in Science, a... |
| Feb 7, 2025 | How 3D Technologies are Revolutionizing the Medical Industry | Ion Hatzithomas, CEO at RenderHub
The Medical Revolution Powered by 3D Technology
In recent years, the healthcare industry has witnessed a groundbreaking transformation driven by 3D visual technologies. Once confined to the realm of science... |
| Dec 6, 2024 | The Plant-Based Revolution: Growth, Innovation, and Leadership in a Changing Food Landscape | The plant-based food industry is more than a trend; it’s a movement. With rising consumer demand for sustainable options, companies are racing to innovate. Tender Food, a Massachusetts-based food-tech company, recently appointed Mike Messer... |
| Dec 4, 2024 | Tender Food Appoints Former Oatly President Mike Messersmith as CEO to Lead Next Phase of Growth | Tender Food, a Massachusetts-based food-tech company specializing in plant-based food production, has announced the appointment of Mike Messersmith as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Messersmith, who previously served as President of... |
| Nov 15, 2024 | World-Class Scientists Gather at Tencent 2024 WE Summit in Chengdu to Share Cutting-Edge Discoveries | Five eminent speakers, including Nobel laureates and the top Chinese physicist Qi-Kun Xue, share groundbreaking insights at the Tencent WE Summit in Chengdu.
SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 3, the 12th Annual Tenc... |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Bridging Hearts and Innovation: The Future of Medicine and Alternative Proteins | In the heart of Beijing, a new chapter in medical innovation is unfolding. Professor Luo Min has been appointed as the Chairman of the Spine Neurocardiology Interdisciplinary Professional Committee. His mission? To revolutionize treatments ... |
| Sep 19, 2024 | Tender Food: “We Need Technology Breakthroughs to Rekindle Growth of the Alternative Meat Industry” | Tender Food is a Boston-based company specializing in plant-based meats, aiming to replicate the texture and taste of whole cuts like chicken breast, pulled pork, and steak. The company’s proprietary technology uses plant proteins to mimic ... |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Будущее хранения данных. Где и на чем будем хранить данные в будущем | Объём данных, которые мы производим и используем, растёт феноменальными темпами. СМИ сегодня существуют преимущественно в цифровом формате, данные предприятий всё чаще хранятся на облачных платформах, а учёные накапливают огромные массивы и... |
| Jul 6, 2024 | мРНК. Как превратить тело в фармацевтическую биофабрику? | В некоторых статьях ранее я писал о том, что идея нанороботов, как сконструированных стальных машин, но очень маленьких – переоценена. Нет смысла пытаться затащить в организм что-то извне, если у нас уже есть внутренние биороботы, и было бы... |
| May 23, 2024 | Venture Leaders Biotech 2024: Captains Blog by Maria Van Dongen, CEO of Allegria Therapeutics, and Gabriel Liguori, CEO of TissueLabs | Venture Leaders Biotech 2024: Captains Blog by Maria Van Dongen, CEO of Allegria Therapeutics, and Gabriel Liguori, CEO of TissueLabs 23.05.2024 12:30, Rita Longobardi linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
In mid-May, the ten V... |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Venture Leaders Graduation Ceremony: 2023 alumni's successes reflect the strong Swiss startup ecosystem | Venture Leaders Graduation Ceremony: 2023 alumni's successes reflect the strong Swiss startup ecosystem 26.01.2024 12:30, Rita Longobardi linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
Yesterday, the Venture Leaders 2023 reconvened at t... |
| Jun 28, 2023 | Как люди мамонта клонировали | ▎Как часто мы слышим о внеочередном исчезновении того или иного вида животных?
Увы, чаще чем хотелось бы. Вымирание случается в силу разных причин. И если человечество еще как-то пытается спасти тех, кто стоит на грани вымирания, то что дел... |
| Jun 28, 2023 | От флешек к ДНК: разбираемся в новой технологии хранения данных | В ближайшие три года общее количество цифровых данных увеличится в три раза и достигнет 175 миллиардов терабайт. Надежно сохранить такое количество информации на жестких дисках и магнитных лентах будет практически невозможно, строительство ... |
| Jun 19, 2023 | The Venture Leaders Biotech set sail on the Boston roadshow with immersive expert workshops, uniting entrepreneurs and investors in the US market | The Venture Leaders Biotech set sail on the Boston roadshow with immersive expert workshops, uniting entrepreneurs and investors in the US market 19.06.2023 16:40, Rita Longobardi linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
The Ventu... |
| May 23, 2023 | Collaborative Fund and the Wyss Institute partner to bridge the climate tech ‘valley of death’ | For pretty much every startup, there’s a perilous period that occurs after things are up and running but the money isn’t flowing. Called the “valley of death,” the conundrum is especially challenging for climate tech startups, which tend to... |
| Apr 13, 2023 | GLX Analytix Joins Harvard's Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator to Deliver Disruptive Innovation to Hard Diagnostics Problems | GLX Analytix embraces opportunity to form partnerships that accelerate the commercialization of a game-changing platform impacting broader diagnostics ecosystem
We are thrilled to join this hub of esteemed and diverse changemakers that are ... |
| Apr 7, 2023 | Хранение данных в ДНК: как поместить знания всего мира в обувную коробку? | В конце прошлого года бостонскому стартапу Catalog Technologies удалось записать отрывок в 17 000 слов из «Гамлета» Шекспира на искусственную ДНК-молекулу. После этого ученые произвели поиск по ключевым словам, что заняло у них всего нескол... |
| Feb 21, 2023 | ADAXIS collaborates with STILRIDE to incorporate 3D printing in the industrial-origami manufacturing arsenal | Swedish startup STILRIDE, known for its origami-inspired technique to electromobility design and manufacturing, is collaborating with French-Swedish robotics firm ADAXIS to add 3D printing functionalities to its sustainable manufacturing te... |
| Dec 15, 2022 | The First 'Vagina-on-a-Chip' May Aid Researchers in Testing Drugs for Bacterial Vaginosis | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 15 December 2022, 12:12 pm
The first "vagina-on-a-chip," named so because it recreates the vaginal microbiome using living cells and bacteria, has been created by researchers.
In a report by Scientif... |
| Dec 7, 2022 | A healthcare brand for women begins to take shape | Until last year, healthcare funding continued to shatter previous records. But there remains at least one very big hole in the industry. No one has yet created a broad, leading women’s healthcare brand, and that spells opportunity.
Dina Rad... |
| Oct 24, 2022 | The namesake behind Harvard’s Wyss Institute has made his fourth donation, this time to the tune of $350M | Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss has had an extensive career as an entrepreneur and as a philanthropist. Now, his latest donation is to the Institute at Harvard University that bears his name and which has received its l... |
| Oct 21, 2022 | Hansjörg Wyss Makes $350 Million Gift To Harvard University | Harvard University has received a $350 million gift for its Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired ... [+] Engineering. getty |
| Jul 14, 2022 | Back in the Manifold: George Church-founded protein therapeutics biotech tacks on $40M in series A funds | Almost two years after launching, George Church-founded Manifold Bio has raised a $40 million series A to continue development of its protein barcode system and advance a number of oncology programs.
The latest haul, announced Thursday, wil... |
| Jun 19, 2022 | Five of the world’s tiniest robots | The RoboFly
Allow me to take you on a trip down my memory lane. As a young lad, a film I saw captured my imagination: Fantastic Voyage, a 1966 release about people shrunk to microscopic size and sent into the body of an injured scientist to... |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Harvard scientists 3D print multi-layer functional heart tissue | Researchers from Harvard University’s Wyss Institute have developed a suite of new heart engineering technologies that have enabled them to mimic the alignment of a human heart’s contractile elements.
Leveraging a bioink containing contract... |
| May 12, 2022 | Fluxergy Joins as an Inaugural Member of the Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator's Industrial Participant Program | Fluxergy partners with the Wyss Institute Fluxergy plans to collaborate with distinguished clinicians, researchers, engineers, funding agencies, philanthropists, government agencies, and industry partners.
IRVINE, Calif. (PRWEB) May 12, 202... |
| Mar 15, 2022 | Spinning alt-meat like cotton candy, Tender Food banks $12m seed capital | US alt-protein startup Tender Food — previously known as Boston Meats — has raised $12 million in seed funding for its “cotton-candy machine” technology that can be used in the production of both plant-based meat analogs and cell-cultured p... |
| Mar 9, 2022 | Colossal grabs $60 million Series A for moonshot mammoth project | Colossal, the company known for its mission to resurrect a woolly mammoth (or at least, an elephant with some very mammoth-like traits), is back with $60 million in Series A funding. But despite the fanfare and cash, there’s not a ton of sc... |
| Mar 4, 2022 | Finding cures faster: Bring the FDA into the 21st century with advanced testing | From every sector, the cry is being raised: “We can’t go back to the way things were before the pandemic.” CEOs and politicians, educators and entrepreneurs, health professionals and scientists, all urge the importance of taking stock, adju... |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Trestle Biotherapeutics licenses kidney implant 3D bioprinting technology from Harvard | 3D Printing Industry is currently seeking feedback on material usage across the sector. Have your say in the Spotlight on Resin 3D Printing Survey now.
San Diego-based bioengineering start-up Trestle Biotherapeutics has gained a license for... |
| Nov 30, 2021 | Учёные создали биологических «роботов», способных собирать подобные себе структуры | Учёные из Вермонтского университета, Университета Тафтса и Института биологического инжиниринга им. Виса объявили о создании совершенно новой формы биологического воспроизводства живых организмов, и применили это открытие для создания первы... |
| Sep 15, 2021 | Lab-grown woolly mammoths could walk the Earth in six years if geneticist’s new start-up succeeds | Tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm is helping to fund a project by Harvard geneticist George Church to revive the woolly mammoth.
The project, called Colossal, aims to create a calf in as little as six years, Church told CNBC.
Proponents also say r... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Новости медицины: напечатанная перепонка, автономный кардиосимулятор и магнитометр на основе железо-иттриевого граната | Напечатанная перепонка
Травмы барабанной перепонки порой чреваты нарушением её целостности: это состояние сопровождается острой болью и снижением слуха. Для устранения подобных дефектов, как правило, требуется хирургическое вмешательство, к... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Pluto Biosciences Launches Cloud-based Collaborative Life Sciences Platform for Academia, Biotech and Pharma Organizations | DENVER and BOSTON (PRWEB) August 18, 2021
Pluto Biosciences, a biotech software startup, launched its cloud-based, collaborative life sciences platform that leverages technology developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engi... |
| Jul 14, 2021 | Watch a 3D-printed robotic hand play Nintendo | Engineers have created an inflatable robot so nimble it can beat the classic Nintendo game Super Mario Bros.
The machine, pioneered by Ryan Sochol, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and other researchers at the University of... |
| Mar 3, 2021 | Everything Entrepreneurs Want to Know and Never Dared to Ask | March 3, 2021 7 min read
This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process.
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
"When you do what you love and ar... |
| Jun 16, 2020 | Wyss Institute gets $16M to repurpose FDA-approved drugs for Covid-19 | As the scientific community races toward potential treatments for Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus that has now killed at least 116,000 Americans, researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute are partnering with ... |
| Apr 9, 2020 | Wyss Institute spinoff i2O Therapeutics raises $4M in seed funding | Boston-based i2O Therapeutics, a biotech startup focused on developing a platform for oral delivery of traditionally injectable biological drugs, raised a $4 million seed funding round led by Sanofi Ventures and JDRF T1D Fund.
Founded Harva... |
| Feb 7, 2020 | From mice to dogs, and someday man: George Church's gene therapy cocktail for aging-related diseases | George Chruch Rejuvenate
Emerging gene-therapy technology could help dogs live healthier, if not longer, lives as man’s best friend.
A startup called Rejuvenate Bio — launched out of George Church’s lab at Harvard Medical S... |
| Jan 9, 2020 | Aspect Biosystems raises $26 million CAD in Series A for 3D printing of human tissues | Aspect Biosystems, a biotechnology company that conducts 3D bioprinting of human tissues, has raised $26 million CAD ($20 million USD) for its Series A round of funding.
The new capital marks the largest-ever round of venture-backed funding... |
| Aug 30, 2019 | WATCH: This Two-Minute Synthetic Biology Video Is A Far-Out Vision Of The Future | In this conception of bio meets space tech, a SpaceX capsule journeys through the cosmos. The outer ... [+] shield self-repairs while other parts of the ship convert waste carbon into useful materials.Vasil Hnatiuk |
| Aug 15, 2019 | These robo-shorts are the precursor to a true soft exoskeleton | When someone says “robotic exoskeleton,” the power loaders from Aliens are what come to mind for most people (or at least me), but the real things will be much different: softer, smarter and used for much more ordinary tasks. The latest suc... |
| Jul 25, 2019 | New bandage reacts to body heat to accelerate healing, reduce scarring | Originally Published by:
Watch scientists endure the intense shaking of a Marsquake simulation Harvard research suggests millions of people are wasting their time taking aspirin SpaceX is going to deliver Nickelodeon slime to the Internatio... |
| Jun 7, 2019 | Wyss Institute lands $131 million gift from founder | Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering today announced a donation of $131 million, the latest gift from its founding entrepreneur and namesake, Hansjörg Wyss.
Wyss Institute researchers draw on design principles from... |
| May 7, 2019 | GV leads $58.5M round for Verve, a startup looking to pit gene editing against heart attacks | Imagine replacing the arsenal of drugs we use to treat heart disease with a single injection. That’s what Verve Therapeutics wants to do. And to get there, the startup is launching with $58.5 million, access to gene-editing technology from ... |
| May 7, 2019 | GV leads $58.5M round for Verve, a startup looking to pit gene editing against heart attacks
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Vital Precision for Cost Reduction, QA, and Regulatory Compliance | Imagine replacing the arsenal of drugs we use to treat heart disease with a single injection. That’s what Verve Therapeutics wants to do. And to get there, the startup is launching with $58.5 million, access to gene-editing technology from ... |
| Dec 20, 2018 | Harvard’s bugbot now walks up walls | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Spider-like robots that can scale walls with ease might be coming to a metropolis near you, if researchers at Harvard and Rolls-Royce h... |
| Sep 14, 2018 |
Eat Your Food, and the Package Too
| Around tables strewn with Exacto knives, bowls, cutting boards, tape, funnels, and bags of hemp powder, mushroom parts, and sugar, a dozen graduate students from the packaging and industrial-design departments at Pratt Institute, in Brookly... |
| Jul 18, 2018 | ‘Underwater Pokéball’ snatches up soft-bodied deep dwellers | Creatures that live in the depths of the oceans are often extremely fragile, making their collection a difficult affair. A new polyhedral sample-collection mechanism acts like an “underwater Pokéball,” allowing scientists to catch ’em all w... |
| Nov 29, 2017 | Complex new artificial muscles could let a duck lift an entire car | Soft robots that look like complex Origami structures could one day be used in a variety of fields for all sorts of different tasks, including lifting or moving heavy objects. These artificial muscles would only need air or some type of flu... |
| Oct 19, 2017 | Quest to depict CG sperm leads to real biological advances | An effort to make a 3D animated sperm for a short film has ended up producing a model of unprecedented detail and considerable scientific value. If you were ever curious what goes on inside those things, this is probably the best depiction ... |
| Sep 9, 2017 | Robotic bees could take the sting out of Colony Collapse Disorder | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
America’s agricultural sector faces an unpreceden... |
| Sep 9, 2017 | Robotic bees could take the sting out of Colony Collapse Disorder | America’s agricultural sector faces an unprecedented crisis. Native honeybees, one of the most prolific pollinators in the animal kingdom, are dying off at an unprecedented rate from Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and threatening an ecosyst... |
| Jul 27, 2017 | This Bio-Hacking Anti-Aging Product Has a Unique Cult Following: Doctors | Eric Marcotulli, Dan Alminana and Leonard Guarente of Elysium Health. Elysium Health
Three years ago, Eric Marcotulli, Dan Alminana and Leonard Guarente launched Elysium Health, a direct-to-consumer company that connects the public to scien... |
| Jul 12, 2017 | These stretchy, durable sensors could be woven right into clothing | If we must have an Internet of Things, it makes no sense to leave clothes out of the party. But clothes must be worn, washed, bunched up and folded — it’s hard to make electronics that can survive all that. Plenty are trying, though; the la... |
| Jun 20, 2017 | venture leaders Life Science 2017: Walk the investors’ talk | Monday: Rolling the pitch
PAREXEL, 7:30AM. A short night after landing at Logan airport, the participants went to PAREXEL in a school bus. The day started with a presentation by CEO Josef H. von Rickenbach. PAREXEL actually started as a sta... |
| Jun 20, 2017 | venture leaders Life Science 2017: Walk the investors’ talk | venture leaders Life Science 2017: Walk the investors’ talk 20.06.2017 10:00, Lara Rossi linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
From June 12 to 16, ten Swiss startups in Life Science rocked the Boston business and innovation hub... |
| Jan 5, 2017 | ReWalk Robotics is building a ‘soft exoskeleton’ to rehabilitate stroke patients | The Boston-based company that was first to provide robotic legs to paralyzed veterans in the U.S., ReWalk Robotics Ltd., has a new product in development that you won’t see this week at CES. The device is a “soft exoskeleton,” designed to h... |
| Jun 17, 2016 | Philanthropist Bill Gates talks public health, biotech, and the race for the White House | Bill Gates became one of the richest men in history after cofounding Microsoft. His impact on the world of personal computing cannot be overstated.
But for more than 15 years, he has devoted himself to philanthropic work through the Bill &a... |
| May 18, 2016 | Lasers and nanoparticles combine to allow metallic 3D printing in midair | Traditional 3D printing has limits that have negatively impacted its usefulness. For one, almost all 3D printers use plastic as the medium, and that plastic needs to be supported during the printing process. An experimental printer develope... |
| May 17, 2016 | Harvard 3D Printer Uses Lasers To Make Self-Supporting Metal Structures In Mid-air | Khier Casino, Tech Times 17 May 2016, 12:05 pm
A new 3D printer can create metal structures in mid-air with no need for supports.
The device, which has yet to be named, was developed by Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically I... |
| May 16, 2016 | This machine 3D prints metal structures in midair by lasering nanoparticles | One limitation of run-of-the-mill 3D printers is that the structure must essentially be built as a series of layers, each one supporting the next. A new device from Harvard’s Wyss Institute allows metal filaments to essentially be drawn in ... |
| Nov 30, 2015 | Harvard Medical School eases up on contentious ethics rule | Harvard Medical School has created more wiggle room in one of its conflict-of-interest rules, after complaints from professors that the policy was hampering them from turning lab discoveries into treatments that could help people.
The chang... |
| Sep 26, 2015 | Harvard Medical School puts strict ethics rules under microscope | Harvard Medical School is reevaluating rigid conflict-of-interest rules that aim to shield scientific research from corporate influence amid complaints by some professors that the restrictions slow the process of turning discoveries into re... |
| Sep 22, 2015 | This 3D Printing Technology Can Change Materials Instantly | Christian de Looper, Tech Times 22 September 2015, 03:09 pm
The ease of 3D printing has begun revolutionizing how we make things, and everything from houses to drones has become the subject of a 3D printing project. Despite this, there are ... |
| Jun 17, 2015 | Lightweight Robotic Glove Could Improve The Lives Of Over 6 Million Americans | J.E. Reich, Tech Times 17 June 2015, 04:06 pm
Don't let carpal tunnel get you down: scientists at Harvard have designed a lightweight robotic glove to aid people with restricted range and mobility, helping them hold, squeeze and pick up obj... |
| Mar 31, 2015 | The design world’s eyes are on organs-on-chips | Organs-on-chips on display in New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. (Photo: Wyss Institute at Harvard University)
By Tom Ulrich
If you’re in New York City in the next few months, pop into the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and stop by the “Thi... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Biological ‘programmers’ crack new code in stem cells | Researchers discovered many small nuances in pluripotency states of stem cells by subjecting the cells to various perturbations and then analyzing each individual cell to observe all the different reactions to developmental cues within a st... |
| Nov 19, 2014 | A biospleen is born | The Wyss Institute’s biospleen. (Photos courtesy of the Wyss Institute)
By Tom Ulrich
On a Friday morning a few years ago, a childhood friend of mine walked into his doctor’s office, saying his hip hurt. The pain was pretty severe, and had ... |
| Oct 9, 2014 | The backstory behind organs-on-chips | By Tom Ulrich
With the launch this summer of Emulate Inc., organs-on-chips – a disease-modeling platform we’ve covered several times on Vector – made the jump from academic to commercial development.
Though developed at the Wyss Institute f... |
| Aug 25, 2014 | Stem cell medicine gets a “roadmap” and a quality assurance tool | Credit: Samantha Morris, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital
By Nancy Fliesler
If you’ve lost your way on the Boston subway, you need only consult a map to find the best route to your destination. Now stem cell engineers have a similar map to g... |
| May 19, 2014 | ‘Heart on a chip’ suggests a surprising treatment for a rare genetic disease | By Nancy Fliesler
It was the variability that intrigued pediatric cardiologist William Pu, MD, about his patient with heart failure. The boy suffered from a rare genetic mitochondrial disorder calledBarth syndrome. While he ultimately neede... |
| May 8, 2014 | Capturing complexity: Modeling bone marrow on a chip | By Tom Ulrich
We’ve had a lung on a chip, and a gut on a chip. Now researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have added another tissue to their list of “organs-on-chips”— devices that mimic in vitro tissues’ in... |
| Nov 22, 2013 | Treffen der Schweizer Innovatoren | |
| Nov 11, 2013 | An IOTA of thumb control for children with cerebral palsy, hemiplegia, stroke | This child-sized device assists children with thumb movements while giving them sensory and visual feedback.
By Kipaya Kapiga
Our ability to use the thumb as an opposable digit is a critical part of what sets us apart as a species. "Th... |
| Aug 13, 2013 | Harvard gets $5.6M to use organ-on-a-chip tech to test radiation sickness treatment | Organ-on-a-chip is being used by some drug developers as an alternative to animal testing with the argument that it offers a better model for a drug’s effect on human organs compared with animals.
GlaxoSmithKline researchers have used organ... |
| Jun 20, 2013 | The solution to keeping IV lines clear and infection-free? Make them slippery | A slippery coating inspired by the surface of a pitcher plant could help keep IV lines free of bacteria and blood clots. (kleo_marlo/Flickr)
By Tom Ulrich
Pick up a piece of IV tubing (should you happen to have one nearby) and run your hand... |
| May 17, 2013 | A Goldilocks approach to leaky blood vessels: Not too stiff, but not too loose | Blood vessels won’t grow properly in tissues that are too stiff or too loose. (Project Gutenberg/Wikimedia Commons)
By Tom Ulrich
In the tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Goldilocks tries all of the bears’ porridge, chairs and beds, find... |
| Apr 15, 2013 | Spleen-on-a-chip uses magnetic nanobeads to rid blood of pathogens | We live in a world where we can’t quite replace our internal organs without having another internal organ on standby. Every so often, there is a breakthrough in prosthetic, bionic limb technology, but humans can’t quite replace their entire... |
| Feb 18, 2013 | Monitoring concussions from the sidelines with a mobile app | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Massachusetts researchers developed a smartphone app that doctors may be able to use to monitor neurological activity on the go.
The app may make a big splash among sports doctors who need to keep an eye on the health o... |
| Jan 10, 2013 | Building a body, one organ chip at a time | It may not look like it, but it’s a lung, just in chip form.
By Tom Ulrich
They don’t look like much sitting in your hand. A few pieces of clear plastic, each smaller than an Altoids tin, with channels visible inside and holes for plugging ... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | Harvard creates self-assembling DNA nanostructures from tiny DNA ‘Lego bricks’ | Harvard’s Wyss Institute, which brought us 700-terabytes-per-gram-of-DNA data storage earlier in the year, has now produced DNA Lego bricks — three-dimensional DNA building blocks that self-assemble into more than 100 different, three-dimen... |
| Nov 22, 2012 | Giving thanks for things that matter | (WishUponACupcake/Flickr)
By Vector Staff
At this Thanksgiving, we’d like to pause in appreciation of our researchers and innovators who work hard to find answers and build better lives for patients. We extend an equal thanks to the foundat... |
| Aug 15, 2012 | Putting the squeeze on blood clots to stop a stroke | Blood should flow through an artery like water through a hose. The stress of a blockage can encourage clots to form, potentially resulting in a heart attack or stroke. Donald Ingber thinks the same forces could be used to help dissolve clot... |
