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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.
Engineers share secret of revolutionary transparent sensors
In 2014, when University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers announced in the journal Nature Communications that they…
Paralyzed man feels again through brain computer
Imagine being in an accident that leaves you unable to feel any sensation in your arms and fingers. Now imagine…
Fitness trackers on the wrong track for weight loss?
Author: Daisy Stapley-Bunten
Does a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association…
Air-actuated soft robots behave like human muscles
An EPFL team is developing soft, flexible and reconfigurable robots. Air-actuated, they behave like human…
Daisy-chain-like molecular structures mimic muscle behavior
Interlocking daisy-chain-like molecular structures that can switch from an expanded and contracted position based…
Blood runs thicker than water, but how strong is it?
Bleeding disorders could one day be diagnosed by putting platelets through strength tests, researchers have…
Big data discovers big risk of common prescription drugs
A potentially dangerous drug interaction has been uncovered using data science by researchers at Columbia…
Organ regeneration successful in monkeys
Stem cells grown from a single monkey's skin cells revitalized the damaged hearts of five sick macaques, in a…
“Space brain” effect of galactic cosmic rays
Will astronauts traveling to Mars remember much of it? That's the question concerning University of California,…
A “one-punch” universal flu vaccine
Researchers at McMaster University and two American universities have taken another step closer to developing a…