Could eventually replace antibiotics Scientists at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have created a “magnetic-like” coating that traps and destroys 99 perc... Read more
It’s one of the most commonly occurring medical conditions If heart valves don’t close properly, they are replaced. Conventional treatment of venous valve failure, however, has up to now alw... Read more
Microwaves Can Be Used to Create Medical Images A research team from Chalmers University of Technology has developed new techniques of cancer diagnosis and treatment with the aid of microwav... Read more
A new invention may make things easier for patients with serious bone injuries. From wounded warriors to cancer patients to accident victims, there are an estimated 500,000 bone graft proced... Read more
The researchers say the product one day could be used to reconstruct soldier’s faces marred by blast injuries. Biomedical engineers at Johns Hopkins have developed a new liquid materia... Read more
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new imaging system that enables high-speed, three-dimensional (3-D) imaging of microscopic pre-cancerous chang... Read more
Researchers at Columbia Engineering have established a new method to patch a damaged heart using a tissue-engineering platform that enables heart tissue to repair itself. This breakthrough,... Read more
Image via Wikipedia At the scale of the very small, physics can get peculiar. A University of Michigan biomedical engineering professor has discovered a new instance of such a nanoscale phen... Read more
DOCTORS doing a needle biopsy to analyze tissue for cancer may one day add a second step to the procedure: depositing a tiny device at the site to report on growth of a tumor — and even the... Read more
This bonding also makes the implant more functional Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a “smart coating” that helps surgical implants bond more closely... Read more
The new technique represents a low-cost way to make small stereo speakers, miniature robots or motors Researchers at Purdue University have created a magnetic “ferropaper” that m... Read more