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Smart Textile Moves in Response to Bone, Muscle Stimuli
The smart textile generates a mechanical work capacity and a power output higher than that produced by human muscles.
Wearable Robots Usher in Next-gen Therapies
The BIOMOT project has demonstrated that personalized computational models of the human body can effectively be used to control wearable exoskeletons.
Implant May Treat All Forms of Blindness
A clinical trial enabled the blind recipient of a visual cortical prosthetic to distinguish spots of light.
Heart-on-Chip Is 3-D-Printed, Sensors Included
A 3-D-printed heart-on-a-chip is fabricated with a fully automated, digital manufacturing process.
Mobile Cancer Diagnostics with Mobile Phone
A known cancer biomarker is accurately detected with an iPhone 5 spectrometer.
Q&A with Stephen Ambrose, Audio Pioneer
Engineering360 talks to Stephen Ambrose about how his work to develop ear monitors for use by stage performers can now help people with impaired hearing.
Common Drugs Could Damage Aquatic Environments
Although studies of pharmaceuticals in surface waters have been carried out for several decades, there remains little systematic understanding of their transport, fate and impact.
CellPod Grows Fresh Food in Your Kitchen
The idea of the CellPod concept is based on growing the undifferentiated cells of a plant rather than a whole plant.
Bacteria Could Make Nuclear Waste Repositories Safer
Researchers discovered a microbial community that lives hundreds of meters underground in the very rock layers that have been chosen to host Swiss nuclear waste.
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.