Category: Technology & Devices
Ozone therapy in compact, wearable device offers patients treatment on-the-go
A team of innovators at Purdue University in Indiana, US, have created an experimental, wearable setup that uses ozone gas as an antimicrobial treatment solution for chronic wounds. It also allows patients in remote areas or with limited mobility to […]
PPEs: biodegradable/nonplastic alternatives sought
To contain the “other epidemic” of plastic materials, PPEs made of non-plastic and alternative materials are being developed as counter measures to the environmental impact of PPEs being discarded and littering the environment, says Angelica Buan in this report. Demand […]
New UV-reacting surgical glue could reduce surgery time by 25%
A new type of rubbery bioadhesive could reduce the need for sutures, especially within delicate tissues of the body, thanks to a group of scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Unlike regular adhesives, the experimental material known as “CaproGlu” […]
Small robot “bioprints” new cells onto stomach wall as injury scaffold
Scientists at Tsinghua University in China have developed a prototype snake-like robot that could be endoscopically inserted into a patient’s stomach to treat wounds on the stomach wall. Wounds of this nature can leak gastric juices into the surrounding organs […]
Electric cooker offers an effective decontamination method for N95 masks
Researchers have found out that electric cookers, such as rice cookers, are able to decontaminate N95 respirator masks inside out while also maintaining their filtration and fit. N95 respirators are recommended personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect against airborne droplets […]
Breakthrough 3D imaging device can scan inside blood vessels
A team of scientists and engineers from the University of Adelaide, Australia, and the University of Stuttgart, Germany, have developed a novel imaging device so small that it can navigate the blood vessels of mice. The miniature endoscope, at the […]
New graphene-modified facemasks to offer more effective protection against coronavirus
A consortium of Spanish scientists and companies are working on the development of new and safer prophylactic facemasks to combat the viral coronavirus. The masks will be made of non-woven textiles specially modified with graphene and its derivative materials e.g. […]
Scientists invent electrical scaffolding-like material to help heal broken bones
Current implants or scaffold materials that mimic the body’s own electrical field, to stimulate bone cells into reproducing, are bulky, inconvenient and need to be surgically removed once the broken bone has healed. A new, wirelessly powered innovation by scientists […]
MIT’s innovative surgical tape can patch up wet organs and peel off harmlessly
Last year, a team of MIT engineers developed an impressive alternative to sutures – a surgical adhesive or double-sided tape that could stick to the wet surfaces of organs and even attach implantable medical devices to tissues. Now, the engineers […]
Wrinkles and spots allow new diagnostic AI to estimate peoples’ ages
An artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by neuroinformatics engineers at the Institute for Neural Computation at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Germany, can estimate a person’s age and ethnic origin almost as well as humans. The system is a “hierarchical neural network” […]
