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Faster, more precise lab-on-a-chip holds promise of early cancer diagnosis

An award-winning Vanderbilt University researcher used plasmonics to develop a new kind of nanotweezers that can rapidly trap and detect molecules, viruses and DNA – a device transformative for medicine that also has color printing applications.


“Smart” prosthetic ankle takes fear out of rough terrain, stairs

For years, he’s been visiting a Vanderbilt University mechanical engineering laboratory, making a difference by testing a new “smart” prosthetic ankle that moves with the user.


Vanderbilt opens space at Entrepreneur Center

Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students with innovative ideas and entrepreneurial aspirations will have additional support during the 2013-14 academic year.


Collaboration between Vanderbilt and startup Femtometrix leads to exclusive deal

An innovative wafer inspection tool developed by a team of Vanderbilt professors and engineers has been licensed exclusively to startup company Femtometrix. 


"Wearable Robot" developed at VU garners national attention

NBC, CBSThe Associated Press, numerous local affiliates and various online news outlets were running stories all week about a new “wearable robot” named IndegoTM.