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The medical end market refers to the application of engineering to medicine and biology in order to improve healthcare treatment such as diagnosis, monitoring, and therapy. Includes, but is not limited to, prostheses, robotics, implants, devices, and genetic engineering. A major part of this category is research and development.
Your own brain is to blame for your annoying habits
Our daily lives include hundreds of routine habits, made up of many smaller actions and now neuroscientists have…
Generating clinical-quality ultrasounds on a smartphone
Startup company Butterfly Network, has developed a low-cost, handheld scanner that generates clinical-quality…
Battery technology adapting for medical carts in hospitals
Michele Windsor, global marketing manager at medical battery specialist Accutronics, explains the growing…
Echo prosthetic leg designed to improves a dog’s mobility and balance
A winner of the 2017 Model One Awards, the Echo prosthetic leg is specifically designed to improves a dog's…
Innovation prize awarded to disease detecting invention
A life-changing invention to detect disease using a smartphone has won a new £30,000 innovation competition.
Newly found virus swims into view of researchers
Researchers at MIT and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, have discovered a type of virus that dominates water…
Smartphone-connected medical devices enable remote diagnosis
Cupris Health has developed communication software and smartphone-connected medical devices that enable the remote…
‘Heart-on-a-chip’ can be used to test the reaction of heart tissue
Testing new clinical drugs’ effect on heart tissue could become quicker and more straightforward, thanks to new…
Manufacturing drugs and synthesizing chemicals in outer space
Having proved its efficacy on Earth, the separator is now being tested as a tool for manufacturing drugs and…
Spider web inspires device to revolutionize type 1 diabetes management
A Cornell University-led research team has developed a device that could revolutionize management of type 1…