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Tiny light-up barcodes help researchers identify DNA molecules

Post author By Randall
Post date April 15, 2019
Categories In dna, dnasequencing, duke university, medicine, oak ridge national laboratory, Tech, temporal barcodes, tomorrow

[ad_1] “The idea is everything has its own heartbeat,” said Shalin Shah, the lead author of the paper who is a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering at Duke University. The technique invented by Shah, along with Duke computer science professor John Reif and postdoctoral researcher Abhishek Dubey of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, would […]

Lab-grown blood vessels could make dialysis easier

Post author By Randall
Post date March 27, 2019
Categories In bioengineered, blood vessels, clinical trial, dialysis, duke university, humacyte inc, medical device, medicine, science mag, Tech, tomorrow, yale university
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[ad_1] Dialysis replicates some of the kidney’s key functions, but it requires a machine that pulls blood out of a blood vessel, filters it and pumps it back into the body. Typically, an extra blood vessel — either synthetic or donated — is implanted into the patient’s arm, and that channels blood into the dialysis […]