Biomask: Improving Facial Burn Treatment for Soldiers in the Field
Current treatments for facial injuries often lead to disfigurement or speech impediments, but Biomask could change regenerative medicine. More »
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Current treatments for facial injuries often lead to disfigurement or speech impediments, but Biomask could change regenerative medicine. More »
Currently in the prototype stage, the Computer Assisted Medical Diagnosis and Surgery System will make future travelers self-sufficient. More »
Professor Bruce MacDonald of the University of Auckland in New Zealand leads a team working to create a corps of medical robots that will be able to help monitor and assist elders in need. More »
Developed by scientists at NASA to treat their astronauts while on a space mission, this tiny device can release medicine on its own. More »
Developed by kids at Northeastern University, this sensor-laden compression shirt contains EMG sensors linked to an Internet portal. More »
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have found that nanodiamond coating limits wear and tear on the body's joints. More »
Drs. Billy Cohn and Bud Frazier at the Texas Heart Institute were faced with a patient last March whose heart was about to give out. More »
Bill Doyle of Novocure, a company that has developed non-invasive technology to control cell division in glioblastoma tumors, speaks. More »
Boston Scientific has announced the European market launch of the PROMUS Element Plus stent, which incorporates platinum chromium allow and features a catheter delivery system. More »
After entering through the patient's mouth, this little robot uses a pincer to grab the tissue to be removed and then cauterizes to stop bleeding. More »
A team of scientists at the University of North Carolina have found a novel way to cut sperm counts to levels that would make men infertile. More »
About one-third of those who have a stroke suffer a second in the hospital, and before now there wasn't a good way to monitor brain health. More »
Ariel Garten, the CEO of InteraXon, a company working to make EEG a useful consumer tech for computer interaction, speaks at TEDx. More »
Spearheaded by researchers at the Technical University of Munich who have been improving the interactivity of the system over the last year, Mirracle uses augmented reality to look inside. More »
The Cambridge Temperature Concepts product is made up of a wearable sensor and reader unit for measuring your ovulation patterns. More »
Researchers at Brown University are reporting in Nano Letters that they have developed a glucose sensor based on surface plasmonics. More »
There are no immediate applications, but Foldit players successfully created an 18-fold, more active version of an important model enzyme. More »
The German Cancer Research Center built this augmented reality app, called MITK pille, to be used while surgery is being performed. More »
Just tell this app what it is that you're looking for and it will direct you, using a GPS system, to the closest pharmacy with the best deal around. More »
After isolated reports that sequencing was used to diagnose individual patients, we're now seeing news of it being used on a larger scale. More »
