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Volume 1 Issue 9, September 2017

Location-broadcasting chips

This issue highlights the design of localizable implantable magnetic microdevices, and also includes advances in cancer-cell detection via lasing, in tumour therapy with a non-toxic dendrimer, and in the amplification of rare DNA-sequence variants.

The cover illustrates the concept of implantable microdevices that broadcast their location when in a magnetic-field gradient by emitting a magnetic-field-dependent radiofrequency signal (Article).

Image from Pixologicstudio/Getty images. Adapted by Karen Moore.

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  • Microchips embedding a magnetic sensor and a radiofrequency transmitter can be localized in the body of a mouse at submillimetre resolution when under a magnetic field.

    • Yong Lin Kong
    • Giovanni Traverso

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  • Causing nanoscale vibrations in bone-marrow stromal cells embedded in a soft collagen gel induces the cells to undergo osteogenic differentiation and mineralization via mechanosensitive signalling pathways.

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    • Christopher S. Chen
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  • Interventional healthcare will evolve from an artisanal craft based on the individual experiences, preferences and traditions of physicians into a discipline that relies on objective decision-making on the basis of large-scale data from heterogeneous sources.

    • Lena Maier-Hein
    • Swaroop S. Vedula
    • Pierre Jannin
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