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Could you swallow your surgeon whole?
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard…
Using Brain Power To Move Paralyzed Hands
Stroke is an unfortunate, and more common than we'd like to think, occurrence. Approximately one in six…
Handy 3D-printed devices from MIT
Although these names seem fitting for superhero characters; Cyborg beast, phoenix, talon — they are actually names…
These 3D printed objects immediately revert to original position after…
With the help of some light, engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have…
Surgical software installed in London’s largest teaching hospital
It has been announced by Renishaw that a neuromate stereotactic robot system and neuroinspire surgical planning…
Nanorobots are tackling cancerous tumors
Researchers from Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Montréal and McGill University have just achieved a…
IBM lab-on-chip tech can detect cancer before symptoms appear
IBM scientists have just made a major medical breakthrough with their new lab-on-a-chip technology that can, for…
Mechanical man-made materials could impact future prostheses
Patients who need to wear prosthetic devices encounter a series of issues while doing so. For example, the joint…
Swimming microbots detach and rejoin via magnets, could perform future surgeries
Using robots in the medical field is not a new concept. More and more we see robot variations implemented in some…
Bio-bots mimic stingray and follow light
A robotic mimic of a stingray that's powered and guided by light-sensitive rat heart cells has been created by…