medical

A team of scientists is creating robots based on the movement of ancient animals, including pleurocystitids, a sea creature from 500 million years ago. Richard Desatnik, a Carnegie Mellon University scientist, collaborated with European…

The scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Southern California (USC) are doing some exciting work. They've demonstrated the first successful use of a neural prosthetic device to recall specific…

Researchers at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine are highlighting the intricate interplay of nicotine's effects on human brain regions. Their findings, published in eNeuro, explore how nicotine influences the areas…

There are amazing advances in the technology used on the human brain. A new technique uses ion beams to view structures inside human brain cells. Ultimately, this may help us to understand brain diseases, including Alzheimer’s or multiple…

Are you ready for some footballllll... -shaped bioplastic cages used to 3D print cartilage? Please forgive that objectively horrible lead. But, with the Superbowl behind us, I knew many of you would be missing football. But what does…

3D printing may have found a new niche—creating a template for artificial blood vessels in engineered tissue using ice. Artificial organ transplants and drug testing are two possible applications. Given that the demand in the U.S. for…

Researchers at Penn State may just be the heroes we need. In a blind taste test, their 25% less sugar chocolate rated equally to, or higher than, regular chocolate. "We were able to show that there is a range in which you can manage a…

At the end of last year, the VA published its 2023 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Report. They found that 6,392 veterans died by suicide in 2021, up 114% over 2020. What was especially alarming was the suicide increase for women…

Apple just avoided a lawsuit that accused the company of copying heart-monitoring technology from startup AliveCor, after a federal judge ruled in Apple’s favor.  Although details of the decision are sealed because of confidentiality…

NASA’s 2024 Spinoff publication highlights NASA technologies that "benefit life on Earth in the form of commercial products." The 2024 version features 40-plus medical and other commercialized technologies using the agency’s R&D and new…