by Conn Hastings | Apr 21, 2021 | Genetics, Materials, Nanomedicine
Researchers at Ohio State University have developed new software that allows them to rapidly design and simulate DNA nanorobots. Previously, it was challenging to engineer such tiny devices, but now researchers can map out their design in minutes. DNA-based devices...
by Prachi Patel | Apr 20, 2021 | artificial-intelligence/machine-learning
Photo-illustration: Stuart Bradford Artificial-intelligence systems today increasingly determine whether someone gets a job or a loan, how much they’re paid, how they’re treated by doctors and hospitals, and how fairly they’re dealt with by government, law...
by Conn Hastings | Apr 19, 2021 | Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Oncology
Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, and the Medical University of Graz, Austria have developed an electrical pump that can precisely deliver chemotherapeutic drugs into the brain. The technology is conceived as being implantable into brain tumor resection...
by Conn Hastings | Apr 19, 2021 | Anesthesiology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Rehab, Surgery, Vascular Surgery
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed an ultrasound-powered implantable sensor that can measure oxygen levels in tissues deep within the body and transmit these data to an external device. The technology could be useful in monitoring...
by Conn Hastings | Apr 14, 2021 | Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Materials, Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Surgery, Vascular Surgery
Researchers at the Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea have developed a hydrogel patch system that allows for sophisticated sequential release of growth factors that stimulate angiogenesis. The sequential cascade of growth factors...