A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Microscopic bar codes in fertilized eggs.
Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona have come up with an ingenious solution for keeping track of embryos and egg cells during in vitro fertilization procedures: microscopic bar codes.
Continue reading… “Barcoding Embryos”
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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2010
The V-Mail Address is a permanent address that will stay the same no matter where you live or move. It can be an email address,domain name, or even a phone number. It is simple to say, type, and store. No more: street number, street, apt #, city, state, and zip.
Continue reading… “Virtual Permanent Address for Mail and Package Delivery”
Measuring proteins in the blood can help doctors determine patients’ cancer risk and monitor the health of the elderly and people with chronic diseases. But current methods for testing these proteins are too expensive and require too much blood to be performed regularly. A microfluidic chip in clinical trials does on a single chip in 10 minutes what normally takes multiple technicians hours to do–and with just a single drop of blood. Researchers hope to make bedside diagnostics based on blood proteins a reality by bringing down the cost of such tests by at least an order of magnitude.
Continue reading… “Ten Minute Blood Test To Identify Cancer Proteins”
