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Leukemia-on-a-chip offers breakthrough in personalized cancer treatment

A team of researchers led by NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Weiqiang Chen has developed a miniature device that could transform how blood cancer treatments are tested and tailored for patients.

2 Jul 2025

To cut Medicaid, the GOP’s following a path often used to expand health care

President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful" budget reconciliation bill would make some of the most sweeping changes in health policy in years, largely affecting Medicaid and Affordable Care Act plans — with reverberations felt throughout the health care system.

2 Jul 2025

In a first, Trump and GOP-led Congress prepare to swell ranks of U.S. uninsured

Last September, Alton Fry went to the doctor concerned he had high blood pressure. The trip would result in a prostate cancer diagnosis.

30 Jun 2025

Organ chip technology accurately predicts chemotherapy response in esophageal adenocarcinoma patients

Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), one of two major forms of esophageal cancer, is the sixth most deadly cancer worldwide for which no effective targeted therapy exists.

27 Jun 2025

Beetle-inspired tuberculosis testing device offers accurate detection for people with HIV

Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB from traditional tests by eliminating the immune cells relied upon to sound the alarm.

27 Jun 2025

Spaceflight research sheds light on age-related muscle decline

Sarcopenia, which is a progressive and extensive decline in muscle mass and strength, is common with aging and estimated to affect up to 50% of people aged 80 and older.

27 Jun 2025

Dual threats from Trump and GOP imperil nursing homes and their foreign-born workers

In a top-rated nursing home in Alexandria, Virginia, the Rev. Donald Goodness is cared for by nurses and aides from various parts of Africa.

26 Jun 2025

Scientists create ALS on a chip to uncover disease clues

Using stem cells from patients with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness as well as effective treatments.

24 Jun 2025

Engineered lymph node model advances human immune system research

Scientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have created an engineered model of the supportive tissue found within a lymph node to study human health.

12 Jun 2025

How Fluidics is Powering Modern Healthcare and Medical Device Innovation

The future of fluidics in healthcare: Blake Webb shares trends in automation and microfluidics that are reshaping medical diagnostics and laboratory processes.

From Fluid Metering, Inc. 12 Jun 2025

What are ‘improper’ Medicaid payments, and are they as high as a Trump official said?

Responding to charges that President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill would cut Medicaid coverage for millions of Americans, Trump administration officials misleadingly counter that it targets only waste, fraud, and abuse.

11 Jun 2025

CN Bio introduces cross-species DILI services to enhance in vitro to in vivo extrapolation during preclinical drug development

CN Bio, a leading provider of Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) systems and solutions that accelerate drug discovery and development workflows, has introduced two new animal microphysiological system (MPS) models that enhance translatability in preclinical drug safety and toxicology assessments to its Contract Research Services (CRS). Building upon the Company's FDA-recognized drug induced liver injury (DILI) assay, the expanded offering enables rapid, comparative studies between commonly used animal and human models to flag interspecies differences early, and better informs in vivo study design.

10 Jun 2025

Manganese-coordinated lipid nanoparticles boost VZV vaccine-induced T cell responses

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Because varicella zoster virus (VZV) infections are continually increasing, vaccine efficacy must be enhanced.

10 Jun 2025

Brain-computer interfaces signal a new era in neurosurgery and neurorehabilitation

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology is opening an unprecedented chapter in human-machine integration by establishing direct communication between the brain and external devices.

10 Jun 2025

Compact diagnostic platform enables rapid COVID-19 antibody testing from fingertip blood

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with multiple collaborators, have developed a compact diagnostic platform that can evaluate antibody protection against COVID-19 using only a single microliter of fingertip blood.

5 Jun 2025

CHIP News and Research

Leukemia-on-a-chip offers breakthrough in personalized cancer treatment

To cut Medicaid, the GOP’s following a path often used to expand health care

In a first, Trump and GOP-led Congress prepare to swell ranks of U.S. uninsured

Organ chip technology accurately predicts chemotherapy response in esophageal adenocarcinoma patients

Beetle-inspired tuberculosis testing device offers accurate detection for people with HIV

Spaceflight research sheds light on age-related muscle decline

Dual threats from Trump and GOP imperil nursing homes and their foreign-born workers

Scientists create ALS on a chip to uncover disease clues

Engineered lymph node model advances human immune system research

How Fluidics is Powering Modern Healthcare and Medical Device Innovation

What are ‘improper’ Medicaid payments, and are they as high as a Trump official said?

CN Bio introduces cross-species DILI services to enhance in vitro to in vivo extrapolation during preclinical drug development

Manganese-coordinated lipid nanoparticles boost VZV vaccine-induced T cell responses

Brain-computer interfaces signal a new era in neurosurgery and neurorehabilitation

Compact diagnostic platform enables rapid COVID-19 antibody testing from fingertip blood

Portable paper chip enables multiplex testing of infectious diseases

New microfluidic device brings affordable kidney testing to the point of care

New electrochemical device advances point-of-care HIV diagnostics

A Medicaid patient had a heart attack while traveling. He owed almost $78,000.

Advancing GPCR drug discovery with fragment screening using GCI technology

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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