by | Feb 26, 2021 | Biswas, Pratim, Fortner, John, Jiang, Yi, Wang, WeiNing
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A team of researchers at Washington University, led by Pratim Biswas and John Fortner, has constructed crumpled graphene oxide nanoparticles encapsulating TiO2 and Ag to create reactive, easily cleaned water filtration membranes. The TiO2 and Ag, which can be periodically re…
by | Feb 12, 2021 | Bergonzi, Karla, Culver, Joseph, Eggebrecht, Adam, Ferradal, Silvina
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Researchers in Prof. Joseph Culver’s laboratory have developed a patented, compact, lightweight functional neuroimaging device for long-term bedside monitoring. This technology, based on high-density diffuse optical tomography (HD-DOT), could be used as a surrogate for …
by | Nov 30, 2020 | Chandrasekaran, Vinay, Genin, Guy, Hafez, Daniel, Hartquist, Chase, Leuthardt, Eric, Lowe, Halle, Osbun, Joshua, Zayed, Mohamed
— An interdisciplinary team at Washington University has developed an easy-to-use neurovascular catheter system designed to reduce surgery time and prevent herniation during transradial interventions for stroke, aneurysms and other conditions. This device, called “String Theory”, can be sw…
by | Nov 5, 2020 | Damiano, Ralph, Schuessler, Richard
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This technology is a patented method aimed at increasing the success rate of atrial fibrillation (AF) treatment by designing customized, patient-specific cardiac ablation lesion sets.
AF, the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, has traditionally been treated with a ma…
by | Sep 25, 2020 | Binkley, Michael, Bose, Arpita, Meacham, John, Rengasamy, Karthikeyan
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An interdisciplinary team of Washington University researchers has developed a high-throughput microfluidic bioelectrochemical cell (μBEC) that collects electrochemical data and is compatible with live-cell microscopy and spectrometry. This device transcends the capabilit…