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Stanford team invents sensor that uses radio waves to detect subtle changes in pressure

Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)

Stanford engineers have invented a wireless pressure sensor that has already been used to measure brain pressure in lab mice with brain injuries. The underlying...

Mind-controlled prosthetic arms that work in daily life are now a reality

Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)

For the first time, robotic prostheses controlled via implanted neuromuscular interfaces have become a clinical reality. A novel osseointegrated (bone-anchored)...

All that glitters is... slimy? Gold nanoparticles measure the stickiness of snot

Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)

Some people might consider mucus an icky bodily secretion best left wrapped in a tissue, but to a group of researchers from the University of North Carolina at ...

Amputees discern familiar sensations across prosthetic hand

Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)

Even before he lost his right hand to an industrial accident 4 years ago, Igor Spetic had family open his medicine bottles. Cotton balls give him goose bumps. N...

New 'lab-on-a-chip' could revolutionize early diagnosis of cancer

Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists have been laboring to detect cancer and a host of other diseases in people using promising new biomarkers called "exosomes." Indeed, Popular Science ...

Easy recipe to make bone and cartilage

Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Monash University and RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology have used a comb...

Health T-shirts and a mind-reading bar unveiled in Japan

Oct 07, 2014 (AFP)

Glasses that tell you how to get home, adverts that know where you are looking and a T-shirt that knows how fast your heart is beating were on display at a huge...

Trio win Nobel medicine prize for brain's 'GPS'

Oct 06, 2014 (AFP)

British-American researcher John O'Keefe on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize with a Norwegian couple, May-Britt and Edvard Moser, for discovering an "inner G...

'Smart' bandage emits phosphorescent glow for healing below

Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)

Inspired by a desire to help wounded soldiers, an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Conor L. Evans at the Wellman ...

A Heartbeat Away? Hybrid Patch Could Replace Transplants

Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)

TAU researcher harnesses gold nanoparticles to engineer novel biocompatible cardiac patch. Because heart cells cannot multiply and cardiac muscles contain few s...

New material steals oxygen from air

Oct 02, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have synthesized crystalline materials that can bind and store oxygen in high concentrations. Just one spoon...

New tool assesses skill development in robotic microsurgery, reports Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Oct 02, 2014 (SPX)

A new standardized assessment provides a useful tool for tracking surgeons' progress as they develop the skills needed to perform robot-assisted microsurgery, r...

Guyana, China sign five-year health pact

Sep 27, 2014 (AFP)

China on Saturday agreed to train Guyanese doctors in medical specialities, as part of a five-year deal with the South American country. China's National Health...

Nanotubes help healing hearts keep the beat

Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)

Carbon nanotubes serve as bridges that allow electrical signals to pass unhindered through new pediatric heart-defect patches invented at Rice University and Te...

Drugmaker GSK says fined $490 mn in China graft probe

Sep 19, 2014 (AFP)

A Chinese court on Friday fined British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline 3.0 billion yuan ($490 million) following a nearly year-long bribery probe, the company said. ...

Asia's rising tobacco epidemic

Sep 18, 2014 (AFP)

Smoke-filled bars and packed cancer wards reflect decades of neglect of no-smoking policies in Asia, where both high- and low-income countries are belatedly wak...

Material mimicking shark skin combats hospital superbugs

Sep 17, 2014 (UPI)

A shark skin-like material called Sharklet can be used to combat superbugs in hospitals, according to a new study. The material emulates shark skin in that it h...

Maggot therapy to make a comeback in Kenyan hospitals

Sep 05, 2014 (UPI)

Infected wounds and rotting flesh aren't so great for humans, but for maggots, it's a smorgasbord, and hungry maggots just got some good news out of Kenya. Hosp...

Google bio firm in $1.5 bn alliance against aging ills

Sep 03, 2014 (AFP)

Google backed life sciences firm Calico and bio-pharmaceutical titan AbbVie on Wednesday announced an alliance to invest $1.5 billion to find ways to battle age...

Sorting cells with sound waves

Aug 28, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers from MIT, Pennsylvania State University, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a new way to separate cells by exposing them to sound waves as ...