Oct 09, 2024 3D-printed death capsule By Mitasha Bharadwaj The famous Star Trek-styled 3D-printed coffin, Sarco Pod, is facing another controversy. The famous Australian physician Dr Philip...
Oct 03, 2024 New blood vessel scanner with the ability to image in real time By Annabel Williams A new handheld scanner uses photoacoustic tomography (PAT) to produce highly detailed imaging scans in real time. The new scanner will...
Aug 28, 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...
Aug 15, 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...
Aug 01, 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...
Jul 24, 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...
Jul 18, 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...
Jul 09, 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...
Jul 09, 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...
Jul 04, 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...
Jun 13, 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...
Jun 11, 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...