Medical

Researchers have developed a new microfluidic chip that can detect diseases using a minimal number of components and can be powered wirelessly by a smartphone.

MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) researchers have introduced an assistive knitted glove that grants wearers a reinforced hand grip using the sensing and feedback of pneumatic actuator technology. 

Neutron Therapeutics, a targeted radiation therapy company focused on BNCT (Boron Neutron Capture Therapy), and Cosylab, the world’s leading provider of control systems, have announced that Neutron's nuBeam BNCT System, using Cosylab's OncologyOne software, has reached a significant milestone in its clinical commissioning at Helsinki University Hospital – marking the first simulated patient treatment.

Combining off-the-shelf IoT technologies and equipment with new mathematical models that simulated the propagation of COVID-19, a pilot solution at a Paris university hospital centre has demonstrated how building managers in the future can limit the spread of viruses such as COVID-19.

Now more than ever before, people are reliant on technology, particularly their smartphones and smartwatches. But most people’s devices are on them – not in them. That’s where tech implants come in: this article looks at what tech implants are, how some of them work, and what users may think about such a controversial use of technology.

Developed at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBCH PAS), alongside Mitsubishi Electric, Labomatica and Perlan Technologies, the AGAMEDE robotic system was designed to significantly speed up the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2. Garry Lewis, Marketing & Communications Manager UK, Mitsubishi Electric Europe discusses.

TurinTech is looking to set the scene in the artificial intelligence (AI) space, by using AI to optimise code, and thereby models that rely on code to help healthcare professionals make better life-critical decisions. Electronic Specifier’s Kiera Sowery discussed AI efficiency for real-world decision making, healthcare wearables, and AI explainability with CEO and Founder, Dr Leslie Kanthan.

A form of life support treatment, medical ventilators are vital for assisting with a patient’s breathing when they are unable to breathe sufficiently on their own. Rodrigue Mao, Head of Product Management, Distrelec looks at the basic components that are common to all ventilators.

Cryogenic freezing may be a staple of science fiction, but does it have any basis in science fact? There are certainly cryogenic freezing facilities out there already – preserving the cells of legally-declared-dead bodies for a time (if such a time is even remotely possible) when corpses may be reanimated. This article questions, however, whether this field of cryogenic engineering could ever stand the ultimate test of time.

Unisem, a global provider of semiconductor assembly and test services, has won the Packaging Process Showdown at MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress (MSTC) for its presentation MEMS Cavity Packages —The Applications, Options and Considerations