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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.
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…
Keyboard technique developed to monitor Parkinson’s at home
In a paper published today in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers at MIT and elsewhere describe a technique…
Growing old gracefully by preventing free radicals
Free radicals destroy our cells, all human organisms are attacked by them and over times they contribute to us…
Oxides set aflutter with water vapor
Exposing one type of an oxide structure called perovskite to both water vapour and streams of electrons, it…
DNA microsatellites lead to new understanding of cancer tumors
Short, unstable stretches of DNA, called microsatellites, may play a far greater role in the development and…
Hopelessly devoted to social memory
According to a new study from MIT neuroscientists, mice have brain cells that are dedicated to storing memories of…
Nanosensors help understand how tumors will respond to therapies
MIT researchers have designed nanosensors that can profile tumors and may yield insight into how they will respond…