Wyss Institute
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ScienceOrgans-on-chips allow the study of drugs and diseases without testing on animals or humans. Now a team at Harvard has designed a device that smokes cigarettes and sends the smoke through a lung-on-a-chip, to examine just how the habit damages health.
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Vaccines and treatments are constantly improving, but getting them to remote locations remains a challenge. Now a team at Wyss Institute has developed a portable system that can produce key biomolecules for treatment on demand, with no need for power or refrigeration – just add water.
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A lightweight exosuit, which features a “soft” fabric-based design, could help patients with lower limb disabilities regain mobility. The institute has partnered with ReWalk Robotics – the biggest name in powered exoskeletons - for the ambitious project.
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Researchers have developed a low-cost, paper-based method of detecting viruses like Zika and Ebola, and can even identify a specific strain. The team believes the test can be used in the field to quickly and easily detect the presence of a virus, and be used to slow the spread of future outbreaks.
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Whenever foreign objects such as implants are placed within the human body, there's a danger that bacteria could collect on them, leading to infections. Now, however, scientists have created a material that's too slippery for those bacteria to cling onto. It works by continuously releasing oil.
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Scientists have had some success activating the body's immune system to take the fight to cancer and other diseases, a process known as immunotherapy. Now, scientists a new method developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering promises to further advance the form of treatment
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Falls are the leading cause of death by injury amongst seniors. Now, however, a new study indicates that subtly-buzzing insoles may help seniors regain some of the lost sensation in their feet, and thus be less likely to fall down.
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ScienceThe very same building blocks that make us have been successfully programmed to form 32 differently-shaped crystal structures with precisely-defined depth and a variety of sophisticated 3D nanoscale attributes, thereby laying further foundations for the use of DNA to revolutionize nanotechnology.
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Researchers at Harvard University have developed a surface coating that when applied to medical devices to be implanted inside the human body, repels blood and bacteria and prevents blood clotting without the use of blood thinners, such as heparin.
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Scientists at Harvard's Wyss Institute have developed a human airway muscle-on-a-chip that accurately mimics the way smooth muscle contracts in the human airway and could help in the search for more effective asthma treatments.
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Harvard researchers have started a company called Emulate to further develop and market an Organs-on-Chips platform that mimics the physiology of human organs. The platform can be used to test new pharmaceuticals, speeding up the process, sparing animals and paving the way for personalized medicine.
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Researchers working at Harvard University and MIT have revealed a robot that is able to transform itself from a flat structure into a moving, functional machine in around four minutes before scrambling away under its own power at a speed of about 2 in (5 cm) per second.
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