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  • An article in Nature Communications reports bioprinted trophoblast organoids as models of early placental development.

    • Christine-Maria Horejs
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  • An article in Nature Communications reports a magnetically guided biohybrid microrobot system for active and efficient pneumonia therapy in vivo.

    • Lan Vi Nguyen
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  • An article in Nature Biomedical Engineering demonstrates a needle-free floss-based vaccination platform that can be self-administered and triggers systemic and mucosal immune responses.

    • Caroline Beyer
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  • An article in Communications Biology reports a new system that integrates robotic assistance, ultrasound navigation and augmented reality to improve the precision and accessibility of percutaneous nephrolithotomy.

    • Sadra Bakhshandeh
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  • An article in Science Translational Medicine describes a lab-in-tube device for rapid and low-cost detection of tuberculosis from sputum, saliva and serum samples.

    • Caroline Beyer
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  • An article in Nature Materials reports a topological acoustofluidic device that enables the control of sound waves, fluid flow and particles at the micro- and nanoscales, all on a single chip.

    • Sadra Bakhshandeh
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  • An article in Nature Communications reports a positron emission tomography (PET) reporter system to measure the biodistribution and translational persistence of an mRNA-encoded antigen in the whole body, providing a non-invasive and precise route to monitor the spatiotemporal dynamics of mRNA vaccine antigen expression in vivo.

    • Christine-Maria Horejs
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  • An article in Nature Communications reports a cell unroofing approach to prepare cellular plasma membrane samples for cryo-electron tomography and precise analysis of plasma membrane proteins.

    • Christine-Maria Horejs
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  • An article in Nature Communications presents a new biofabrication technique called multimaterial cryogenic printing, which leverages cryogenic solvent phase transitions to develop free-standing hydrogel constructs and hydrogel-based machines.

    • Caroline Beyer
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  • The authors introduce a new printing technology called dynamic interface printing (DIP), which leverages an acoustically modulated air–liquid interface to rapidly create supportless structures without requiring specialized chemistry or complex optical systems.

    • Sadra Bakhshandeh
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  • An article in Science Robotics presents a wireless bioelectronic robot that integrates living motor neurons and cardiomyocytes to power movement.

    • Caroline Beyer
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  • An article in Communications Engineering presents a robotic optical coherence tomography system that offers robust, flexible and automatic scanning of the surface of a full kidney for quality assessment prior to transplantation.

    • Sadra Bakhshandeh
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  • An article in Nature Biomedical Engineering reports a low-cost and scalable light-sheet microscopy framework that benefits from high imaging performance as well as small device and computational footprints.

    • Christine-Maria Horejs
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  • An article in Nature Electronics reports the development of a biodegradable, minimally invasive tent electrode for large-area cortex monitoring.

    • Caroline Beyer
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  • An article in Nature reports the generation of human chimeric brain organoids that integrate cells from multiple donors.

    • Caroline Beyer
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  • An article in Science Robotics reports green algae-based microrobots, carrying macrophage membrane-coated nanoparticles, that can be orally administered to neutralize proinflammatory cytokines in the gastrointestinal tract to treat inflammatory bowel disease.

    • Christine-Maria Horejs
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  • An article in Nature Communications reports a metabolic modelling-based framework to construct synthetic microbiomes that can degrade specific herbicides in soil.

    • Christine-Maria Horejs
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  • An article in Nature Materials reports a new ultrasoft and conformal liquid bioelectronic material for injectable and retrievable biosensing.

    • Sadra Bakhshandeh
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