"Explorer" is the name of the world's first scanner that can capture high quality 3D picture of the entire human body in 20 to 30 seconds. The scanner combines positron emission tomography (PET) and X-ray computed tomography (CT), which reconstructs 360 ° sectional images. The research...
Hyundai is not only working on cars, planes or designing heavy equipment but they are also at the foreground of wearable robot technology. The company is bringing walking to paraplegics. Soon, people who have use of their arms but not their legs can use the Hyundai...
At Georgia Tech, science fiction has moved closer toward reality. Gil Weinberg, Minoru Shinohara, and Mason Bretan have developed an ultrasonic sensor that allows amputees to individually move the fingers of their prosthetic hands. They've been able to make detailed maps of small muscle movements...
Nowadays there is a lack of suitable donors, particularly as cars get safer and first-aid becomes more effective. In the UK, for example, you can now expect to wait more than two-and-a-half years for a kidney transplant. Many people therefore die waiting for a transplant. Lots of things are...
Currently, cancer treatments focus on chemiotherapy or radiotherapy but those methods kill both bad and good cells. In search for a new solution that could only focus on the bad cells, researchers are now developping bacterial treatments. Solutions like directly injecting tumors with bacteria or genetically modify...
Made from inorganic biodegradable beads to not trigger an immune response in the body, these tiny microscopic robots are inserted by the vascular surgeon and can be controlled by external magnetic fields. Their design is much easier to control as the beans turn individually allowing the...
Researchers from the University of Washington developed a new technology to reveal functional activity in fetal brains. Because babies and small children move a lot during MRIs, the image is often blurred and unreadable. This new approach corrects the motion distortion that takes place during an MRI and permits a...