Best of CH 2022: Link About It
Edible sneakers, batteries powered by gravity, breakthroughs in physics and more inspiring articles from the year
Tag: Medical Research
Find all stories on Medical Research in this tag archive.
Looni’s Menstrual-Health Supplements Tackle Medical Misogyny
Powered by an all-women medical team, this new menstrual health company takes women's pain seriously
Via npr.org
Scientists Build Robotic Fish Using Human Heart Cells
Recently a team of scientists built a school of robotic fish powered by human heart cells—a project that attempts to understand how to construct replacement hearts for those with cardiovascular diseases. The …
Via futurism.com
Testing DMT to Treat Depression
Psychoactive drug DMT (aka N, N-Dimethyltryptamine) is known for its life-altering, metaphysical trips, but scientists are now looking into its potential to treat depression. Small Pharma, a Canadian drug development company, is …
Via them.us
New Treatment EBT-101 Could Provide a Breakthrough Cure for HIV
Excision Biotherapeutics’ groundbreaking HIV treatment, EBT-101, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration to begin testing for its first phase of human trials. This new treatment relies on the Nobel Prize-winning, …
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
Celebrating trans love, the return of a design icon, maps from the mind, ancient inventions gain new life and more
Via designboom.com
3D-Printed Organ Capable of “Breathing”
Bioengineers at Rice University and the University of Washington crafted a first-ever 3D-printed “breathing” organ. Developing an organ that can maintain (aka breathe and transmit oxygen) has proven to be the most …
Via apnews.com
Twin Girls Might Be The World’s First Gene-Edited Babies
Chinese researcher He Jiankui of Shenzhen, along with US scientist and bioengineering professor Michael Deem, assisted in making the world’s first gene-edited babies. While this was not announced in a journal or peer …
Via techcrunch.com
ResearchKit for iPhone Improves Medical Research
Aside from the Apple Watch, ResearchKit may be the most exciting project to have come out of Apple’s recent keynote. The new open-source, iOS software framework is Apple’s answer to the lack …