Healthcare

This issue profiles a drug for oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy treatment that receives orphan drug designation; non-viral CFTR-based gene therapy for cystic fibrosis patients, a breast cancer diagnostic test in Europe.

This issue profiles a novel microchip-enabled drug-delivery system, a technology for reducing diesel engine emissions, and head-up displays that get transformed into consumer wearables.

This issue profiles miotoxicity and drug screening assays through micropatterning techniques, leveraging glycobioengineering for cancer research, and pharmacological chaperones to enhance enzyme replacement therapies.

This issue profiles a biomarker for detection of mental disorders in women, a novel gene-control molecule that targets chronic wounds, and gene therapy for treatment of Parkinson’s disease.

This issue profiles a novel genetic approach to target pancreatic cancer tumor and regrowth, a study to identity genetic receptor changes related to HIV treatment, a study to identity gene types responsible for varying sleep patterns.

This issue profiles a novel indicator for breast cancer screening, a next generation behavioral health platform, and a diagnostic and therapeutic PET imaging agent

This issue profiles a sound wave-based point of care diagnostic device for biomarker detection, a novel methodology to detect antiviral antibody interactions, and placenta-on-a-chip technology for understanding placental function

This issue profiles an injectable drug eluting bone substitute for bone healing and remodelling, an innovative image acquisition platform that boosts medical sonography capabilities, and a drug-eluting biodegradable scaffold for percutaneous coronary intervention.

This issue profiles 3D bioprinting for breast cancer reconstruction of nipple areola complex, enablement of cardiovascular tissue using extracellular matrix-based technology, and a experimental technique for development of whole organs