Medical Engineering

Medical Engineering

Remote Robot Control: MIT’s Virtual Reality Breakthrough

Many manufacturing jobs require a physical presence to operate machinery. But what if such jobs could be done remotely? This week researchers from MIT's…

Medical Engineering

New Cardiac Catheter Uses Light and Ultrasound to Measure Plaques

Professor Laura Marcu's lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis has now combined intravascular ultrasound with fluorescence lifetime…

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Penn Medicine First to Use New Radiation Treatment Technology

Doctors at Penn Medicine have become the first in the world to treat a patient with a new treatment platform designed to streamline the way therapeutic…

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Skin patch dissolves 'love handles' in mice

Researchers have devised a medicated skin patch that can turn energy-storing white fat into energy-burning brown fat locally while raising the body's overall…

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Medicine of the future: New microchip technology could be used to track 'smart pills'

Researchers at Caltech have developed a prototype miniature medical device that could ultimately be used in “smart pills” to diagnose and treat diseases. A key…

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UZH Life Sciences Fund Backs First Spin-off CUTISS

The recently created UZH Life Sciences Fund is making its first investment, putting one million CHF into CUTISS, a young company aiming to bring bioengineered…

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Optimizing Therapy Planning for Liver Cancer Treatment

Radioembolization is a therapy method used for liver tumors that are uncurable with surgery or chemotherapy. Thorough development of an individual planning is…

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Self-powered paper-based 'SPEDs' may lead to new medical-diagnostic tools

“You could consider this a portable laboratory that is just completely made out of paper, is inexpensive and can be disposed of through incineration,” said…

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New Technique for Mitral Valve Disease Treatment Revealed

More and more people are fulfilling the wish for an active lifestyle into old age. But the societal trend is proceeding to the detriment of the heart, because…

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Fast, Affordable Bioimaging Technique Enhances Molecular Monitoring

A new approach to optical imaging makes it possible to quickly and economically monitor multiple molecular interactions in a large area of living tissue –…

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Noninvasive eye scan could detect key signs of Alzheimer's years before patients show symptoms

Cedars-Sinai neuroscience investigators have found that Alzheimer's disease affects the retina — the back of the eye — similarly to the way it affects the…

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Water-Filtered Infrared-A: A Solution for Swallowing Disorders

A patient with a Barrett oesophageal carcinoma and a resection of the oesophagus with gastric pull-up developed swallowing disorders 6 years and 2 months after…

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New Microscope Technique Unveils Live Embryo Structures

Infertility can be devastating for those who want children. Many seek treatment, and the cost of a single IVF cycle can be $20,000, making it desirable to…

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New Imaging Tracer Assesses Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Risk

Yale University researchers have developed a way in which medical imaging could potentially be used to assess a patient's rupture risk for abdominal aortic…

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Watch Molecular Dynamics in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Researchers have developed a fast and practical molecular-scale imaging technique that could let scientists view never-before-seen dynamics of biological…

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New Blood Test Detects Sepsis Signs in Just One Drop

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois and Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois, completed a clinical study of the device, which is the…

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