Category: Technology & Devices
Powerful new antibiotic to fight deadly superbugs discovered by AI system
Medical science has always strived to stay ahead of bacteria as evolving antibiotic resistance could lead to a dismal future. Researchers at leading US universities – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard – have just identified a powerful new […]
Synthetic Rubber: Medical care improved with silicones
Silicones, owing to their unique qualities, enhance the efficiency of advanced medical technologies, says Angelica Buan in this article. Today’s fast-paced lifestyle predisposes populations to a myriad of health conditions that often go unchecked until it’s too late. Debilitating conditions […]
Acute respiratory distress syndrome: asymmetrical membranes to the rescue
Patients suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) may need to be ventilated artificially in emergency situations. Here, medical professionals use a heart-lung machine to perform extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) – it involves taking and enriching blood from the body […]
Aussie scientists report exciting pain relief breakthrough using human stem cells
Hoping to offer a safer and less addictive alternative to opioid-based pain relievers, scientists at the University of Sydney have demonstrated the viability of a new type of pain-blocking neuron derived from human stem cells for the first time. The […]
Long, damaged nerves can be regrown with new polymer-protein technology
In the US, nerve damage affects more than 20 million people, including wounded soldiers and unfortunate civilians. Often, if a damaged nerve section is longer than a third of an inch, the nerve can’t regrow to its target and gets […]
New Swiss tech keeps livers alive outside the body, rejuvenates damaged livers for transplant
A group of surgeons, biologists and engineers from Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a new machine that can keep donor livers alive outside the body for up to a week. The new perfusion machine’s primary function is to preserve organs set […]
Google AI system found to identify breast cancer more accurately than radiologists
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK – about one in seven women in the UK develops breast cancer during their lifetime, contributing to around 55,000 diagnoses every year, according to Cancer Research UK. There could soon […]
Tooth-on-a-chip device enables better dental observation of cavities
Yet another organ-on-a-chip device – used in medical settings to gauge how a full organ might react to medication or toxins – has been developed by scientists at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), US. This time, the world’s […]
Life-saving injectable magnetic fluid could staunch blood loss
In treating most accident victims, first responders struggle to control bleeding especially with deep or wide open wounds – a team at America’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), led by Yonatan Tekleab, have designed a magnetic fluid that can effectively […]
Fibrous membrane designed in Switzerland to protect heart pacemakers
As useful as pacemakers may be, they do need to be surgically replaced every few years and may sport a layer of fibrous tissue on its surface by then, which could complicate the removal process, risk infections and so on. […]
