28 Aug, 2024 Coming soon: robots for injecting into the human body By Annabel Williams Exciting times ahead. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a cell-sized battery that works by...
15 Aug, 2024 Combatting antimicrobial resistance By Gareth Williams Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is one of the major current health concerns. Resistant strains which have emerged recently include...
01 Aug, 2024 Video processing and AI provide new way to track Parkinson's disease progression By Patrick Scott Virtually all areas of innovation have been touched by artificial intelligence, and medical technology is no exception. In recent...
24 Jul, 2024 Taking Charge of Our Health: Medical Wearables By Kameel Kaur Bassi Medical wearables have come a long way from the traditional fitness trackers and heart rate monitors that first flooded the market. From...
18 Jul, 2024 Concussion biomarkers linked to MND By Tom Grendon If you have been following the news recently, you may well have seen that Motor Neurone Disease (MND) has been in the headlines more and...
09 Jul, 2024 Celebrating a vaccine success By Paul Chapman Vaccines are not new. Edward Jenner, although not the inventor of vaccination, certainly pioneered vaccination and developed the first...
09 Jul, 2024 Don’t sweat it: 3D printing facilitates manufacture of intricate sensors By Frank Lee Thomas Prock With the rapid advancement in medtech, medical devices have been made increasingly based on additive manufacturing techniques. According...
04 Jul, 2024 New approach for neuroprosthetics By Nick Jones While traditional prosthetic limbs rely on complex robotic control systems to mimic human limb movement, an interesting new approach has...
13 Jun, 2024 Longitude Prize on AMR (antimicrobial resistance) - and the winner is... By Paul Chapman In 1714, the Longitude Act was passed, seeking to find a useful method to determine longitude to an accuracy of half a degree. The prize...
11 Jun, 2024 A new type of flexible battery for wearable tech? When old becomes new. By Yann Robin As a (very average) triathlete, I am guilty of owning a few wearable gadgets to track my (mediocre) progress. One area where I have...
06 Jun, 2024 Protecting Med Tech Innovations in the Era of Home Diagnostics By Dan Gunn Melissa Lever As patent attorneys in the Med Tech space, it is evident that the self-testing revolution will continue to gain momentum. The global...
17 May, 2024 Exceptional researchers elected to Royal Society Fellowship By Andrea Williams The Royal Society has announced the names of over 90 exceptional researchers to be elected as Fellows; and I am so pleased to see some of...