Category: Technology & Devices
Metaball puts the gym in your gymbag
After five years of blood, sweat and tears, former army ranger and fitness model Greg Plitt has made his modular, multi-use, portable gym available for pre-order. Because Metaball has handles, all the kettlebell movements are possible, but that’s just the […]
Laser device may end pin pricks for diabetics
Researchers have used a specialised laser to measure blood sugar, an advance that could allow diabetics to check their condition without pricking themselves to draw blood. Princeton University researchers have measured blood sugar by directing a specialised laser at a […]
Novel tissue scaffolds help body grow new bone
In a first, chemical engineers led by an Indian-origin researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have devised a new implantable tissue scaffold coated with bone growth factors that are released slowly over a few weeks. When applied to bone […]
Laser acne treatment
Acne or pimple is basically a condition which is caused by the secretion of the oil sebum in excessive amounts by the sebaceous glands and thereby blocking those pores. There is an array of remedies available for its cure right […]
Botox may slow tumor growth in stomach cancer
Botox has frozen the faces of countless Hollywood stars, and international researchers said Wednesday the toxic injections might also be able to stop cancer in its tracks, at least temporarily. The findings in the journal Science Translational Medicine are based […]
Japanese experts launch project to detect cancer
Japanese researchers have announced a five-year project to develop a diagnostic system that can detect 13 different types of cancer by using tiny molecules in the blood as biomarkers. They expect the system will allow the detection of cancer in […]
This sponge-like polymer could fix facial deformities
Millions of people suffer from facial deformities because an injury, surgery, or birth defect left a gap in their bone structure. These bone gaps are too wide for the body’s normal healing process to fix, and surgical solutions like grafts […]
Computer to help spinal cord injury victims walk
For helping people with spinal cord injury walk better, researchers have made an artificial connection from the brain to the locomotion centre in the spinal cord using a computer interface as bypass. This allowed participants to stimulate the spinal locomotion […]
Local scientists create software to help doctors with rare disease diagnosis
A team of scientists at A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) has created a new computer analysis software that cross-references a patient’s symptoms and a person’s genome sequence. The software, Phen-Gen, is the first of its kind and was created […]
New imaging pen helps recognize cancerous skin lesions
A biopsy is the only reliable way to diagnose skin cancer, but having good confidence that a lesion is cancerous before a biopsy can reduce the number of needless biopsies performed. A new tool invented in Austin uses three different […]
