Researchers from ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have set a new world record: they 3D printed complex objects with higher cellulose content than that…
Category: Medical
Device could ‘hear’ disease through structures housing cells
Similarly to how a picked lock gives away that someone has broken into a building, the stiffening of a structure surrounding cells in the human body can indicate that cancer is invading…
Portable AI device turns coughing sounds into health data for flu and pandemic forecasting
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have invented a portable surveillance device powered by machine learning – called FluSense – which can detect coughing and crowd size in real time, then…
The COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has a natural origin, scientists say
According to findings published in the journal Nature Medicine, the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that emerged in the city of Wuhan, China, last year and has since caused a large scale COVID-19 epidemic…
Nanostructured rubber-like material with optimal properties could replace human tissue
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have created a new, rubber-like material with a unique set of properties, which could act as a replacement for human tissue in medical procedures. The…