Scientists ‘Clear’ Alzheimer’s Plaque From Mice Using Only Light And Sound
“Clumps of harmful proteins that interfere with brain functions have been partially cleared in mice using nothing but light and sound. Research led by MIT […]
AI Tool Revolutionizes Process for Matching Cancer Patients with Clinical Trials
“A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory Health Data Sciences Institute has harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to […]
Brazilian scientists produce mini-brains with eyes
“Organoids are tiny, self-organized tissue cultures. They’re comprised of stem cells that can be programmed to replicate naturally occurring tissue. Using them, scientists can grow mini […]
New optical imaging system could spot tiny tumours
“Many types of cancer could be more easily treated if they were detected at an earlier stage. MIT researchers have now developed an imaging system, […]
Chemists Grew A “Synthetic Brain” That Stores Memories in Silver
“In the ongoing quest to build an artificial human brain, scientists from UCLA may have just taken a big step forward. While a real synthetic […]
Mobile Bedside Bioprinter Can Heal Wounds
“Imagine a day when a bioprinter filled with a patient’s own cells can be wheeled right to the bedside to treat large wounds or burns […]
Korea: Researchers 3D Printing Tracheas with Epithelial Cells & Chondrocytes
“Korean researchers have been experimenting further in the bioprinting of tracheal implants, publishing recent results in ‘Trachea with Autologous Epithelial Cells and Chondrocytes.’ The team […]
Device Spots Cancer in a Single Blood Drop
“A new ultrasensitive diagnostic device could allow doctors to detect cancer quickly from a droplet of blood or plasma, report researchers. The device could lead […]
Indian Surgeons Use 3D Printing to Make Custom Pelvic Implant and Surgical Guidance Jigs
“Chondromyxoid fibroma, or CMF, is a rare, benign bone tumor that’s typically found in the bones of legs, arms, feet, hands, fingers, and toes and […]
Western Biotech Firm Treats First Patient With CRISPR
“A Switzerland-based startup called CRISPR Therapeutics just used gene-editing name to treat someone with the blood disease beta thalassemia. That’s a big deal, because it […]
Augmented Reality is Taking Over Radiology Training
“Due to the complexity of the radiology field itself, a specialist may fail to identify an abnormality on an image, incorrectly classify it or report […]
Scientist Who Gene-Hacked Babies “Likely” Boosted Their Brainpower
“When infamous Chinese scientists He Jiankui edited the genes of human twin babies last year, he was reportedly trying to make them immune to HIV. […]
Scientists grow full-sized, beating human hearts from stem cells
“Of the 4,000 Americans waiting for heart transplants, only 2,500 will receive new hearts in the next year. Even for those lucky enough to get […]
Sony and Tour de Cure back virtual reality cancer research projects
“Three Australian research teams have been awarded $520,000 to develop virtual reality tools and therapies to support young people with cancer. The Children’s Hospital at […]
AI Is Rapidly Augmenting Healthcare and Longevity
“When it comes to the future of healthcare, perhaps the only technology more powerful than CRISPR is artificial intelligence. Over the past five years, healthcare […]
Virtual reality to improve patient experience in health care
“Virtual reality (VR) is a computer-based three-dimensional imaging sequence that creates a world within a computer system, allowing users to interact with it via a […]
Can We Repair the Brain? The Promise of Stem Cell Technologies for Treating Parkinson’s Disease
“Cell replacement may play an increasing role in alleviating the motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in future. Writing in a special supplement to the […]
New Research: Bone Marrow Transplants Might Prevent Aging
“There’s new evidence to suggest that transfusions of young tissue can stave off health problems for the elderly. After a transplantation of a healthy young […]
CRISPR Could Make You Immune to the Flu
“Vaccines for bacterial and viral infections are extremely difficult to develop. But thanks to gene-editing, we could soon be able to make people immune to the […]
Shrinky Dinks Inspire Wearable That Predicts Oncoming Asthma Attacks
“If you never created and played with Shrinky Dinks as a kid, they’re basically thin sheets of malleable plastic that are drawn on and then […]
“Trojan Horse” Cancer Drug Sneaks Inside Tumor Cells to Kill Them
“A brand new type of cancer drug that acts as a ‘Trojan horse’ to get inside tumour cells has shown promise in patients with six […]
Newcastle University researchers 3D bioprint artificial cornea with self-assembling 4D biomaterials
“Corneal transplantation is one of the primary treatments for loss of corneal function, but only one in 70 people who need corneal transplants receive them, […]
Future pacemakers could be charged by our heartbeats rather than batteries
“A small device can modify pacemakers so that they use kinetic energy from the heart’s beating, converting it into electricity to keep the batteries charged. […]
Robots and AI to give doctors more time with patients, says report
“Robots, artificial intelligence and smart speakers will ease the burden on doctors and give them more time with patients, according to an NHS report on the […]
Gummy-like robots that could help prevent disease
“Human tissues experience a variety of mechanical stimuli that can affect their ability to carry out their physiological functions, such as protecting organs from injury. […]
MIT Invents Smart Pill That Injects Insulin Into Your Stomach
“Hundreds of millions of people worldwide suffer from diabetes. Their bodies either can’t produce or process insulin properly — so they have to regularly inject […]
Present & Future of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) in Healthcare Market
“International Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) in Healthcare Market research 2018 confers the complete estimation of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) in Healthcare […]
Bioprinting 101: Part 3 Industrial Printers
“Today we will look into bioprinters that are well known. One must understand biochemistry, and other important aspects within biology to fully do well with […]
Doctors Wired a Prosthetic Hand Directly To A Woman’s Nerves
“A female Swedish patient with hand amputation has become the first recipient of an osseo-neuromuscular implant to control a dexterous hand prosthesis. In a pioneering […]
Simple drug combination creates new neurons from neighboring cells
“A simple drug cocktail that converts cells neighboring damaged neurons into functional new neurons could potentially be used to treat stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and brain […]
Doctors Reconstruct 13-Month-Old’s Airway with 3D Printed Implanted Splint
“A little girl in Susquehanna Valley, PA left Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital after spending her first 13 months there. The innovation of 3D printing played a […]
The Massive Project That’s Building a ‘Google Earth for Human Health’
“Earlier this year, the mysterious company announced a collaboration with Duke and Stanford universities called Project Baseline, and it’s got a moonshot goal: stop cancer—and other killers—before […]
Artificial “Electronic Skin” Could Warn Humans of Impending Danger
“Researchers at the University of Connecticut and University of Toronto have developed artificial skin that could give its wearer — robotic or human — superhuman capabilities. The stretchable skin […]
Stem cell breakthrough could help cure type 1 diabetes
“Scientists have edged one step closer to a major treatment for (and possibly cure for) type 1 diabetes. A UCSF team has claimed it’s the first to turn […]
Virtual Caregiver Technology to Reduce Long-Term Costs by 92 Percent by 2050
“The cost of caregiving has been overwhelming for patients with chronic illnesses, the aging and associated families and caregivers. According to financial demographics, as little […]
Researchers Develop Treatment for Bone Infection with Copper-Rich Glass Implant
“A team of researchers led by RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), have developed a new treatment for the particularly difficult-to-treat bone infection, osteomyelitis. […]
Future of Psychiatry Promises to be Digital, From Apps That Track Your Mood to Smartphone Therapy
“Mental health care is an area in need of transformation. One in five Canadians will have mental health problems this year, yet many struggle to access care. According to one study, only […]
Convergence of AI, Blockchain, and Digital Health Tech to Drive Care Delivery Innovation, Study Says
“”In this highly digitized environment, artificial intelligence (AI) will permeate the life sciences ecosystem and its use in healthcare IT (HIT) is likely to cross $1.7 billion by the end of […]
Graphene Implant Can Hear Your Brain Whisper
“The body of knowledge about the human brain is keeps growing, but many questions remain unanswered. Researchers have been using electrode arrays to record the […]
ROSA Knee System Receives FDA Clearance for Robotically-Assisted Surgeries
“Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., a company focused on musculoskeletal healthcare, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance of the ROSA Knee System for robotically-assisted total knee […]
Bio-Printers are churning out living fixes to broken spines
“For doctors and medical researchers repairing the human body, a 3D printer has become almost as valuable as an x-ray machine, microscope, or a sharp […]
Sweat-Drinking Biosensor Patch Helps Monitor Your Health
“Monitoring your health can sometimes be thirsty work the stress of which might leave you sweating bullets, but that may be more beneficial than you […]
Machine Learning Could Reduce Testing, Improve Treatment for Intensive Care Patients
“Doctors in intensive care units face a continual dilemma: Every blood test they order could yield critical information, but also adds costs and risks for […]
How 3D technology is revolutionizing face transplants
“From modeling to printing, it’s all about seeing inside someone’s head. Face transplants are an ideal setting to fuse medicine with the growing world of […]
CRISPR Just Got More Powerful With an “On” Switch
“Earlier this month, a team from UC Berkeley took a stab at taming the CRISPR beast. Using a technique called circular permutation, the team reorganized […]
New Research Could Reverse Memory Loss In Alzheimer’s Patients
“Your DNA sequence never changes. But the expression of your genes changes throughout your life, and the elements affecting these changes are known as epigenetic factors. Now, scientists believe they […]
Researchers successfully turn breast cancer cells into fat to stop them from spreading
“Researchers have been able to coax human breast cancer cells to turn into fat cells in a new proof-of-concept study in mice. To achieve this […]
The Top Biotech and Medicine Advances to Expect in 2019
“2018 was bonkers for science. From a woman who gave birth using a transplanted uterus, to the infamous CRISPR baby scandal, to forensics adopting consumer-based […]
Stem Cell Dental Implants Grow New Teeth in 2 Months
“Apparently, the newest scientific discovery can possibly leave dentures and implants in the past, and make millions of people extremely happy. These two methods for […]
Scientists Mapped Entire Brains at Nanoscale For This Psychadelic Visualization
Scientists Mapped Entire Brains at Nanoscale For This Psychadelic Visualization