Topics

Health, Medicine, & Biotechnology

43
-1
270
30
Podcasts: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Marcus Gerhardt and his company at Blackrock Neurotech are creating a brain-computer interface that restores senses for paralyzed patients.
Feature Image
5 Ws: Materials
A newly designed wearable magnetic metamaterial could help make MRI scans crisper, faster, and cheaper.
Feature Image
Briefs: Medical
The handheld printer deposits sheets of skin to cover large burn wounds and its bio-ink accelerates healing.
Feature Image
Briefs: Wearables
The patch enables unobtrusive drug delivery through the skin for the management of skin cancers.
Feature Image
Briefs: Wearables
The tool diagnoses a stroke based on abnormalities in a person’s speech and facial movements.
Feature Image
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The lenses enable the painless diagnosis or early detection of ocular diseases including glaucoma.
Feature Image
Briefs: Materials
The bandage captures and holds a pro-healing molecule at the site of a bone break to accelerate and improve the natural healing process.
Feature Image
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D bioprinting using bioink from engineered stem cells enables treatment of myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular diseases.
Feature Image
INSIDER: Test & Measurement

Twisted nanoscale semiconductors manipulate light in a new way. This effect could be harnessed to accelerate the discovery and development of life-saving medicines as well as photonic...

Feature Image
INSIDER: Medical

Demand for sensitive and selective electronic biosensors — analytical devices that monitor a target of interest in real time — is growing for a wide range of applications....

Feature Image
Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Document cover
Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - February 2022

How virtual, cloud-based technologies are powering the next industrial revolution...transforming plastic parts into high-value products...designing optics for medical 3D printing. Read...

Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The built-in nanosensors glow to alert patients when a wound is not healing properly.
Feature Image
Briefs: Medical
The handheld printer deposits sheets of skin to cover large burn wounds.
Feature Image
Briefs: Nanotechnology
The device combines with body power to treat tendon disease and damage, and sports injuries.
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor technology could also be used to create clothing that detects a variety of pathogens and other threats.
Feature Image
INSIDER: Motion Control

People rarely walk at a constant speed and a single incline. We change speed when rushing to the next appointment, catching a crosswalk signal, or going for a casual stroll in the park. Slopes...

Feature Image
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Microneedles offer an intriguing alternative to the drug-delivery devices we know and don't love.
Feature Image
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers

JILA scientists have boosted the sensitivity of their decade-old frequency comb breathalyzer a thousandfold, enabling it to detect additional biomarkers of disease...

Feature Image
Special Reports: Software
Document cover
Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - November 2021

In this new report from the editors of Medical Design Briefs and Tech Briefs magazines, discover how the latest advances in 3D printing, machining, molding and more are changing the way...

INSIDER: Internet of Things

Medical sensing technology has taken great strides in recent years, with the development of wearable devices that can track pulse, brain function, biomarkers in...

Feature Image
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers

Although measuring the electrical activity of neurons is useful in many disciplines, making durable neural interfacing brain chip implants with negligible...

Feature Image
INSIDER: Nanotechnology

Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory recently assessed the status of research into colloidal quantum dot lasers with a focus on prospective electrically...

Feature Image
Special Reports: Design
Document cover
Medical Robotics - September 2021

Self-propelled nanobots that deliver drugs inside the human body...novel sensors that improve the safety and precision of industrial robots...a dynamic hydrogel material that makes building soft robotic...

INSIDER: Medical

A study by researchers at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health shows that inexpensive and convenient devices such as silicone wristbands can be used to yield quantitative...

Feature Image
INSIDER: Wearables

When you pick up a balloon, the pressure to keep hold of it is different from what you would exert to grasp a jar. And now engineers at MIT and elsewhere have a way to precisely...

Feature Image
INSIDER: Medical

Ultrathin, flexible computer circuits have been an engineering goal for years, but technical hurdles have prevented the degree of miniaturization necessary to achieve high performance....

Feature Image
Briefs: Wearables
Gait data and machine learning help to monitor and predict disease progression.
Feature Image
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The soft, stretchy skin patch can monitor cardiovascular signals and multiple biochemical levels at the same time.
Feature Image
Briefs: Energy
A flexible device worn on the wrist harvests heat energy from the human body to monitor health.
Feature Image

Videos