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Medical
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.
Real-time epidemic tracking tool developed to monitor outbreaks
Microreact, a free, real-time epidemic visualization and tracking platform that has been used to monitor outbreaks…
Nanotechnology destroys precancerous liver tumor cells
More than 700,000 new cases of liver cancer are diagnosed worldwide each year, according to the American Cancer…
High school football players suffer brain damage
Brain imaging exams performed on high school football players after just one season revealed changes in both the…
Challenging childhood brain cancer
Seen as a disease of genetic changes, cancer has many different types and strengths, however one type of childhood…
Cancer cells backchat to their environment
A fibrous network called the extracellular matrix- the interactions between an animal cell and its environment,…
Have you ever tried mending a broken heart?
Humans and mammals are perceived to be these all powerful ruling creatures. However lower forms of life on earth do…
Virtual reality takes dementia patients on holiday
For those who cannot travel freely, virtual reality’s promise of transporting us to a different world in a…
Starving treatment-resistant breast cancer to death
Cancer rewires the metabolism of tumor cells, converting them into lean, mean, replicating machines, but tumor…
Converting mouse cells into other cells
New mouse blood and immune cells have been artificially generated from skin cells by researchers in Singapore. This…
Developing vaccine inhibits HIV from replicating
For the first time, researchers have shown that a combined approach – using a common cold virus to introduce a…