Medical

Strands of cow cartilage substitute for ink in a 3D bioprinting process that may one day create cartilage patches for worn out joints, according to a team of engineers. "Our goal is to create tissue that can be used to replace large amounts of worn out tissue or design patches," said Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics. "Those who have osteoarthritis in their joints suffer a lot. We need a new alternative ...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Friederike J. Gruhl and Professor Andrew C. B. Cato at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are developing a three-dimensional model for prostate cancer research based on cryogels. The model will be used to reproduce natural processes and above all to examine the development and the progression of tumors.

A team of post-graduate students from the University of Cambridge has published research with the potential to transform the lives of millions of older people around the world. The team has made a genuine contribution to society, an experience that will stay with them for the rest of their careers.

What if lost limbs could be regrown? Cancers detected early with blood or urine tests, instead of invasive biopsies? Drugs delivered via nanoparticles to specific tissues or even cells, minimising unwanted side effects? While such breakthroughs may sound futuristic, scientists are already exploring these and other promising techniques.

The name says it all: MT-CONNECT is the new sector platform for medical technology. The trade fair held by NürnbergMesse in co-operation with the honorary sponsor, Forum MedTech Pharma e.V., brings together all the sub-sectors involved in the development and manufacture of medical products. 

Three Grenoble-based research and medical partners have been selected to join the EU funded IDentIFY project to significantly extend the capability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in disease detection.

Scientists at the University of Bristol have developed a kind of bio-ink, which could eventually allow the production of complex tissues for surgical implants. The stem cell-containing bio ink allows 3D printing of living tissue, known as bio-printing. The bio-ink contains two different polymer components: a natural polymer extracted from seaweed, and a sacrificial synthetic polymer used in the medical industry, and both had a role to play.

Like many autistic children, Julian Brown has trouble reading emotions in people's faces, one of the challenging conditions of the neurological disorder. Now the 10-year-old San Jose boy is getting help from an experimental device that records and analyses faces in real time and alerts him to the emotions they're expressing. The facial recognition software was developed at Stanford University and runs on Google Glass, a computerised hea...

  A research team from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) recently developed AI methods aimed at training computers to interpret pathology images, with the long-term goal of building AI-powered systems to make pathologic diagnoses more accurate.

A team of Tokyo Tech and the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) researchers developed a luciferin analog that can produce bioluminescence with near-infrared wavelength and is applicable in animal experiments. This allows markedly higher target-detection sensitivity, even at very low concentrations. The UEC researchers had previously synthesised a novel luciferin analog, AkaLumine, by altering the chemical structure of D-luciferin.