January 9, 2008 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Sanjay Kumar, along with researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a new “nanobiotechnology” that enables magnetic control of events at the cellular level. They describe the technology, which could lead to finely-tuned but noninvasive treatments for disease, in the January issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
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Fletcher Funded by Microsoft to Develop CellScope
January 2008 Associate Professor of Bioengineering Dan Fletcher has been awarded $100,000 by Microsoft Research to turn the camera of a cell phone into a clinical-quality light microscope that can transmit images of patient samples remotely for evaluation by specialists. Microsoft Research is supporting academics from 10 universities around the world in their research of […]