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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.
Rapid blood-testing technology reduces time between sample and analysis
Lancaster academics are developing blood-testing technology that promises to improve healthcare treatments for…
Can wearable sleep tech lower risk of military-related PTSD?
There have been strong links between sleep disturbance and PTSD and the symptom poses one of the most challenging…
Surgical software installed in London’s largest teaching hospital
It has been announced by Renishaw that a neuromate stereotactic robot system and neuroinspire surgical planning…
Nanorobots are tackling cancerous tumors
Researchers from Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Montréal and McGill University have just achieved a…
5 ways 3D printing will be used in bioengineering
3D-printing technology is being used in a variety of applications, ranging from food, to houses, to prosthetic…
These self-destructing batteries could be used for top secret military ops
There's a new subject matter being studied in the tech world called transient electronics, which involve devices…
New “skin” for soldiers paves the way for protective futuristic…
A team of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has developed a material that is highly breathable…
Dust-sized sensors can be implanted for real-time organ monitoring
Engineers from the University of California, Berkeley have developed the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that…
IBM lab-on-chip tech can detect cancer before symptoms appear
IBM scientists have just made a major medical breakthrough with their new lab-on-a-chip technology that can, for…
Vibrating surgical device lets doctors feel what they can’t touch
When doctors perform minimally invasive surgeries they typically rely on long and thin metal tools to explore…