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The medical end market refers to the application of engineering to medicine and biology in order to improve healthcare treatment such as diagnosis, monitoring, and therapy. Includes, but is not limited to, prostheses, robotics, implants, devices, and genetic engineering. A major part of this category is research and development.
Virtual Reality App Takes The Fear Out Of MRI Scans For Children
A resident physicist at King’s College Hospital, Jonathan Ashmore, keeps a pair of sound-cancelling headphones on…
Timely diagnosis of serious diseases with smart mobile tool
A key challenge for researchers worldwide for decades has been finding practical solutions to detect proteins,…
Bandages Light Up When In Contact With Certain Chemicals
A new 'living material'—a tough, stretchy, biocompatible sheet of hydrogel injected with live cells that are…
Nanoelectronic thread brain probes don’t leave a scar
At The University of Texas at Austin, engineering researchers have designed ultra-flexible, nanoelectronic thread…
Does The Future Hold Designer Babies?
Can you imagine photo-shopping your unborn child to make sure it is perfect before it’s born? No, but a major new…
This is the rhythm of your brain
It may appear that even if you are not a Michael Jackson or Gene Kelly, there is still hope in terms of your…
‘Matchmaker’ needed to aid SMA in infants
The leading genetic cause of death in infants, SMA (spinal muscular atrophy), has always left many unanswered…
What came first- the decision or the movement?
Your brain is an incredible organ, and is constantly making decisions about your movement. Whether you are…
Visibly mapping out the heart’s electrical system
The CardioInsight vest could answer all doctor’s and heart patients worries, as it could help pinpoint electrical…
Drug could help cancer patients to have children
There has been promising evidence, from a recent study, that a medication previously used to prevent infections in…