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A Nontoxic Alternative to Ship Antifouling Paint?
Current antifouling coatings function by releasing biocidal copper, essentially killing everything in the waters around a ship.
Hospital Features a Robotic Surgery Center
When used by a surgeon, the precision built in to robotics tends to cause less blood loss, less pain, and may leave a patient less reliant on postoperative narcotics.
Implant Could Improve Breast Cancer Survival
The scaffold developed at University of Michigan is made of FDA-approved biodegradable material commonly used in sutures and wound dressings.
Soft Robots Are Being Developed for Patient Rehab
A soft-robot belt, constructed of several inflatable actuators, is designed to hold stroke victims upright and guide their movements during rehabilitation exercises.
PhyloChip Helps Pinpoint Water Contamination
PhyloChip identifies microbes based on variations of a specific gene, with no culturing needed.
Non-Invasive Glucose Testing Uses Contact Lens
Glucose is a good target for optical sensing and particularly for what is known as surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy.
Evidence of Deep-Sea Animals Ingesting Microplastics
Among the plastics found inside the deep-sea animals were polyester, nylon and acrylic.
Brain-controlled Robotic Hand Restores Sense of Touch
A quadriplegic man experiences the sense of touch through a robotic arm controlled with his brain.
Fabricated Microfibers Could Aid in Tissue Regeneration
The researchers demonstrated that neural stem cells were able to attach and align on a microfiber scaffold.
New Imaging Technique for Alzheimer’s Disease
A recent study carried out by Lund University and Skåne University Hospital provided the ability to compare tau PET images and brain tissue from the same person for the first time.
An Unobstructed View into the Human Body
For even the most experienced endoscope users, the instruments can prove very challenging to use due to the tendency for blood and other bodily fluids to obscure the camera lens mid-procedure.
3D-Printed Biomaterial for Bone Implants
The 3D-printed biomaterial is a mix of hydroxyapatite and a biocompatible, biodegradable polymer that is used in many medical applications, including sutures.
Device to Recycle Blood Gets Cash Infusion
Automated recovery and processing of blood from surgical swabs should improve the safety of blood recycling.
92% of World Population Breathes Polluted Air
WHO's model is based on data derived from satellite measurements, air transport models and ground station monitors at more than 3,000 locations, both rural and urban.
SoC for Wearable Medical Devices
A new sensor hub integrated as a system-on-chip has been developed for use in a broad range of wearable health devices.
Artificial Blood Vessels That Grow in Recipient
In the future, this could potentially mean one surgery instead of the five or more surgeries that some children with heart defects undergo before adulthood.
A New Twist on Artificial Muscles
Principles of textile spinning helped to create a new class of artificial muscles made from highly twisted fibers.
Diagnosing Malaria with Imaging and Deep Learning
The method uses computer "deep learning" and light-based holographic scans to spot malaria-infected cells from an untouched blood sample.
Artificial Pancreas Gains FDA Approval
Hybrid closed-loop system monitors blood glucose and adjusts insulin dose for type 1 diabetics.
Low-Cost Diagnostic Sensor for Cystic Fibrosis
Compared to other methods used for chloride detection, the citrate-based fluorescent material is more sensitive to chloride and is able to detect it over a wider range of concentrations.