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Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: Next big thing in blood flow measurement

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Nanotubes Gentler On Brain Tissue

In a new study, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital developed a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD)-based diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) device with a high signal-to-noise ratio and high sensitivity for blood flow. This study marks one of the first-ever applications of SNSPDs in a biomedical setting.  In order to function properly, the brain requires a …

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Gene Editing Medicine Breakthroughs

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Gene Editing Medicine Breakthroughs

New techniques improve precision of gene editing technology, replacing the natural guide molecule currently used with a synthetic one called BNA which promises to bring the applications closer to therapeutic reality. Imagine, if you will, a future in which guided technologies of biomachines put into the body can seek out defective gene sequences within each …

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