The blood-brain barrier is a huge challenge when it comes to the delivery of therapeutic proteins to treat genetic diseases, injury, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Stanford researchers developed a novel flexible smart bandage capable of delivering precise electrical stimulation as part of an early response to wound infections.
Stanford researchers in the Woo Lab have developed a novel device that allows for direct visual assessment of the aortic valve apparatus under physiologic pressure in aortic valve procedures.
Dr. Maheen Mausoof Adamson and colleagues have developed a personalized non-verbal communication device and associated app for post-stroke expressive aphasia patients.
Using advances in flexible electronics, researchers at Stanford have developed a stretchable strain sensor for monitoring solid tumor size progression on or near the skin in real time.
Stanford inventors have developed a near infrared (NIR) tumor imaging platform that couples a novel rare earth cancer targeting agent and a handheld NIR-IIb fluorescence imager to enable tumor resection down to the few-cell level.
Ultrasound technology is a safe, high-resolution, and cost-efficient tool for imaging. Other modalities, such as MRI or CT, may require the use of anesthesia. This makes it difficult to image pediatric patients and patients sensitive to anesthesia.
Researchers at Stanford have established the safety and penetrance of the dopaminergic prodrug etilevodopa to prevent the progression of myopia ("nearsightedness"). In the past 50 years, myopia prevalence in the U.S.
This highly instrumented laryngoscope measures intubation mechanics such as force and torque to quantitatively track how a laryngoscope is being inserted.
Stanford inventors have developed a method for collagen compression along with a polymer mesh as a mechanical support to produce collagen-based composite grafts.
Inventors at Stanford University have developed a colorimetric device to visualize microstructural features in tissue biopsies towards clinical diagnostics.