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Assessing State of the Art in AI for Brain Disease Treatment

WASHINGTON, October 14, 2020 — Artificial intelligence is lauded for its ability to solve problems humans cannot, thanks to novel computing architectures that process large amounts of […]

Chemotherapy Drug More Effective When Combined With Microbubbles

WASHINGTON, September 8, 2020 — Hepatocellular carcinoma is a particularly stubborn form of cancer with few treatments and a high mortality rate. It is usually treated by […]

Brain’s Immune Cells Promising Cellular Target for Therapeutics

WASHINGTON, September 8, 2020 — Inspired by the need for new and better therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, Rutgers University researchers […]

Biohybrid Model Uses Organic Lungs, Synthetic Muscles to Re-Create Respiration Mechanics

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2020 — Benchtop tools for studying the respiratory system misrepresent the interdependence between the diaphragm, abdomen and lungs. Meanwhile, computational models often hide the […]

Artificial Tissue Used to Research Uterine Contractions

WASHINGTON, June 2, 2020 — Advanced tissue engineering technologies allow scientists to mimic the structure of a uterus, enabling crucial research on fertility and disease. In an […]

Rat Spinal Cords Control Neural Function in Biobots

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April 28, 2020 — Biological robots, or biobots, draw inspiration from natural systems to mimic the motions of organisms, such as swimming or jumping. Improvements […]

Personalized Microrobots Swim Through Biological Barriers, Deliver Drugs to Cells

WASHINGTON, April 7, 2020 — Tiny biohybrid robots on the micrometer scale can swim through the body and deliver drugs to tumors or provide other cargo-carrying functions. […]

Composing New Proteins with Artificial Intelligence

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2020 — Proteins are the building blocks of life, and consequently, scientists have long studied how they can improve proteins and design completely new […]

Crosstalk Captured Between Muscles, Neural Networks in Biohybrid Machines

WASHINGTON, March 10, 2020 — Scientists watched the formation of a self-emergent machine as stem cell-derived neurons grew toward muscle cells in a biohybrid machine, with neural […]