Nature Biomedical Engineering

Vaccination

Engineers design more powerful RNA vaccines

RNA vaccines against COVID-19 have proven effective at reducing the severity of disease. However, a team of researchers at MIT is working on making them even better. By tweaking the design of the vaccines, the researchers ...

Oncology & Cancer

Mineralization of bone matrix regulates tumor cell growth

Tumor cells are known to be fickle sleeper agents, often lying dormant in distant tissues for years before reactivating and forming metastasis. Numerous factors have been studied to understand why the activation occurs, from ...

Biomedical technology

Researchers restore cold sensation in amputees' phantom limbs

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) researchers have developed one of the world's smallest, most intense and fastest refrigeration devices, the wearable thin-film thermoelectric cooler (TFTEC), and teamed with ...

Surgery

Designing surfaces to improve bone grafts

The field of bone implants has taken incredible strides thanks to technological innovations that allow for stronger grafts that are easier to install. Yet even with these advances, there are still risks involved in such procedures. ...

Immunology

Tuning T cell traits and functions with biomechanical materials

The successful campaign of adoptive T cell therapies, a type of immunotherapy in which immune T cells are collected from a patient, enhanced outside of the body, and reinfused back into the same patient, especially against ...

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