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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.
Immunotherapy shows promise as HIV treatment
There is fresh hope that the same method that has revolutionized treatment options in oncology,…
‘Brain-spinal interface’ bypasses spinal cord injuries
A wireless 'brain-spinal interface' has been used by an international team of scientists to bypass spinal cord…
Cry me a river: Music lovers have more brain connectivity
A team of researchers from Spain and Canada has found evidence that suggests people who are not emotionally moved…
Cure for Zika virus developed in mice
The most devastating consequence of Zika virus infection is the development of microcephaly, or an abnormally small…
Don’t air your dirty clinical laundry in public
A new paper published in FEMS Microbiology Letters, resulting from an investigation of a laundry facility that…
Genetic engineering improves safety of cancer immunotherapy
TRC gene therapy helps your body to fight cancer in a way other treatments have failed; now there is newly…
Machine identifies suicidal behavior just through words
New computer tools can identify with high accuracy, through a person's spoken or written words, whether they are…
Fighting against Salmonella and other pathogens
Immunizing against microbes that invade the gastrointestinal tract, is one of the latest strategies…
Spots of light at the end of the tunnel for vision technology
A person is able to perceive and localize individual phosphenes or spots of light, and for the blind wishing for a…
Anti-malarial drug resistance found in parasite genomes
Genetic markers in malaria parasites linked with resistance to the anti-malarial drug piperaquine have been…