Why Organs-on-a-chip might do Wonders for Medicine
During the last half a year or so, you might have swept by the term organs-on-a-chip in your newsfeed. Maybe the term is not that captivating so you might not…
Robot Scientist ‘Eve’ Makes Valuable Discoveries on her Own
More and more jobs are getting subjected to the threat of automation, but this is not inherently a bad thing. As it turns out, a currently operating robot scientist and…
Samsung is developing an Early Warning Stroke Detector
In the fiercely competitive landscape of mobile handsets it sometimes seems difficult to stand out from the competition. All the makers of these devices are continuously fishing for features consumers…
Could eSight’s new Glasses Help the Legally Blind to See?
For the past week a viral video has been posted on several tech pages. The video pictures a legally blind woman seeing her newborn baby for the first time, with…
Groundbreaking Implant Could Help Paralyzed Walk Again
The ever-increasing technological innovation pace in medicine and related areas is most probably to provide the people currently walking this earth with opportunities impossible to imagine to the previous part…
Researchers Report Great Progress in Wireless Brain-Computer Interfaces
Mind-controlled devices seem like something we might only experience in Utopia or in the world of science-fiction. However, the technology is closer in time than one might expect. As often…
Synthetic Biology is Discretely Targeted by Tech Giants
Sometimes one stumbles upon pieces of information which leads you to suspect that you just might have missed some important, ongoing development of non-negligible magnitude. Thus, if you already heard…
Summarized: The 3D-printing Medical Achievements of the Past Year
As we all probably know by now, additive manufacturing has given us an extraordinary opportunity to create things that have previously been impossible to manufacture. One of the more interesting…
Bionic Breakthrough: Functioning Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arms
A recent medical breakthrough has been achieved by Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory. An armless man has been able to control a pair of prosthetic arms, just by using…
Cancer-Fighting Nanorobots Will Soon Be Tried Inside Humans
The Bar-Ilan University located in Israel recently broke some very interesting news. Apparently clinical trials of nanorobots with the purpose to fight cancer are just around the corner. The robots…
Stitch-free Wound-Closure: Low-tech Innovation with Huge Potential
A company from Israel has developed a method to close wounds without the procedure of stitching. This innovation could disrupt a method that has been used for thousands of years,…
iPhone-sized Ultrasound Scanner Might Disrupt Medicine
Entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg has raised $100 million to create an ultrasound scanner the size of an iPhone and to the price of a stethoscope. This invention could make a major…
