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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.
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…
Lowering stroke risk through 4D imaging
Atrial fibrillation is the most common form of cardiac arrhythmia, as it affects 33.5 million patients worldwide.…
Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Use your brain
New research, led by the University of Southampton, has demonstrated that a nanoscale device, called a memristor,…
Getting an earful from your Doctor
Cupris Health has developed communication software and smartphone-connected medical devices that enable the…
Could you swallow your surgeon whole?
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard…