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Medical
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.
Diabetes leads to blood favoring placenta in fetus
Mothers with diabetes will find that their blood flows preferentially to the placenta instead of the brain in…
Controversial hormone could benefit breast cancer patients
Some scientists consider a particular hormone ‘harmful’ in terms of treating cancer. An international team of…
Now you see it, now you don’t
Not everything maybe as it seems according to new findings published in Psychological Science. Researchers may have…
New sensors are like putty in your hands
Who would have thought that children’s silly putty could be used to make sensors, well the researchers in AMBER,…
Oxygen helps bacteria in antibiotic attack
Bacterial resistance does not always come through adaptation to antibiotics, the bacteria sometimes goes to sleep.…
Wearable device controls Parkinson’s tremor
Emma Lawton, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's when she was 29, appeared on the new BBC TV series 'The Big…
Virtually unwrapping Egyptian mummies
Using cutting-edge scanning technology in a joint British-Australian exhibition, the hidden secrets of Egyptian…
Red sky at night? That’ll be the blood-delivering drones
Johns Hopkins researchers have determined that large bags of blood products, such as those transfused into patients…
Libra Industries renews its defense and medical certifications
Libra Industries, a privately held electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider, is pleased to announce that…
Virtual liver model reduces risk of overdose
A virtual model of the human liver has been developed by researchers at Indiana University's Biocomplexity…