You can find them in cars airplanes robots and medical implants. But their use has been limited in aircraft
#Nobel for Brain s Location Code The Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three researchers who made key discoveries about how the brain represents an animal s position in space orienting it
and making sure the genes are stable says Dean Price a professor of medicine biology and environment at Australian National University.
to labs interested in sequencing hundreds of thousands of human genomes for medical research h
#Motorized Pants to Help Soldiers and Stroke Victims A soft exoskeleton being developed by researchers at Harvard could let soldiers carry heavy backpacks over long distances or help stroke victims walk more steadily.
In the Networked Economy personalization of the customer experience in almost every field from retail to medicine will be become the norm. 2. ENABLING OPEN INNOVATION.
schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders are caused illnesses by genes. Now teams of scientists from research centers around the world, looking at the genetics of nearly 80,000 people, have worked together to identify 108 genetic loci associated with the disorder.
It is the largest genetic study ever conducted of a psychiatric disorder. Researchers are finally beginning to gain some scientific understanding of many common brain disorders,
we didn know a single gene related to these psychiatric diseases, not a single pathway, said Eric Lander, Broad director.
It was echoed a perspective by Steven Hyman, director of Broad Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research:
#Can Technology Fix Medicine? After decades as a technological laggard, medicine has entered its data age.
Mobile technologies, sensors, genome sequencing, and advances in analytic software now make it possible to capture vast amounts of information about our individual makeup and the environment around us.
The sum of this information could transform medicine, turning a field aimed at treating the average patient into one that customized to each person while shifting more control and responsibility from doctors to patients.
The groups that control the most medical data today are insurance companies and care providers, and their data analysis is already beginning to change health care.
which of their patients may fail to take their medicine. Taking steps to avert that problem could improve patientshealth
patient-specific brand of medicine. New mobile technologies, for example, could provide information about a patient everyday behaviors
or how they might react to treatments. e want to believe that most of the things we do in medicine are based on evidence,
is that medicine could become more analytical and evidence-based. Data is also changing the role of patients,
and provides the patient doctor with treatment recommendations based on the data and established medical guidelines.
For the health-care industry it complies with medical privacy laws. For legal and financial clients it integrates with electronic signature services.
#3-D Mammography Shown to Improve Detection of Invasive Breast cancer A new 3-D imaging technology that typically isn covered by health insurance allows radiologists to detect more cases of invasive breast cancer than traditional mammography,
In an analysis of nearly half a million women published in the June 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association,
radiologists will recognize that if they miss a cancer because they weren using tomosynthesis, they could end up being sued by someone who said,
Some medical groups say screening is overused and should instead occur every two years starting at age 50.
A computer algorithm then creates a stack of thin layers that a radiologist can read, much like the pages of a book.
Etta Pisano, dean of the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South carolina, says there still isn enough evidence to say
or even how often women should be screened. aybe radiologists should have a mixture of technologiesomo might just make sense for women with dense breasts,
so radiologists can more accurately analyze the size, shape, and location of any abnormalities and judge whether the tumors are invasive. ight now the prohibitive issue is the costatients can afford to pay for this expensive technology,
to create electrical brain implants capable of treating seven psychiatric conditions, including addiction, depression, and borderline personality disorder.
which is why the military is turning to neurological devices, says Justin Sanchez, manager of the DARPA program, known as Subnets,
for Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies. e want to understand the brain networks in neuropsychiatric illness,
wee trying to build the next generation of psychiatric brain stimulators, says Alik Widge, a researcher on the Mass General team.
a psychiatrist who directs Mass General division of neurotherapeutics, says one aim could be to extinguish fear in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
Psychiatric implants would in fact control how mentally ill people act, although in many cases indirectly, by changing how they Feel for instance,
let do surgery, says Dougherty. t going to be for people who don respond to the other treatments. o
Using genome editing to repair genes could circumvent these issues (see enome Surgery. In the new study, published today in the journal Nature,
which make up the majority of medicines, are compounds far smaller than less common biological medicines like antibodies.
They are developed using libraries of thousands or millions of known chemical substances. Each compound is screened to see
The device is one of the latest efforts to use a nerve-stimulating implant to treat a medical condition.
which a surgeon would gently wrap the electrodes around the nerve. The device would then be connected to a capsule containing the pulse generator
The whole surgery should take an hour and a half or less says Plachta. The president-elect of the American Society of Hypertension John Bisognano says the work is an impressive and promising application of recent advances in miniaturized electronics and microsurgery.
Bisognano a cardiologist who runs a resistant-hypertension clinic at the University of Rochester Medical center in New york knows well the need for more treatment options.
and experimentally some psychiatric conditions (see Brain Pacemakers and Brain Implants Can Rest Misfiring Circuits).
In medical examinersoffices around the United states alone, some 25,000 unidentified human skulls, many of homicide victims, await identification.
Haptic styluses and similar hardware have been used for years for niche applications and for high-end 3-D design and medical trainingor example,
The new treatment requires intensive surgery to remove scar tissue, after which a biological scaffold is sutured in.
and the participants had undergone already multiple surgeries and physical therapy to try to repair their damaged limbs. rankly,
The new treatment, described in Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday, is imple yet with significant translational potential,
During surgery to place the cochlear implant, they injected the cochlea with a neurotrophin gene vector.
which took only a few seconds during surgery, resulted in nerve regeneration in the animals. And weeks after implantation, the nerves of treated animals showed stronger responses to signals from the implant,
This research is described this week in the journal Science Translational Medicine. learly this worksn a guinea pig
creating living factories for medicines, biofuels, and more (see icrobes Can Mass-produce Malaria Drugand iofuel Plant Opens in Brazil.
Experts find proof In a major medical breakthrough, scientists at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) have reported clinical evidence supporting the role of a novel biomarker in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease.
The findings have been accepted by the international journal'Biological Psychiatry'for publication.""A total 130 people0 Alzheimer's patient, 41 patients suffering from mild cognitive impairment and 49 healthy individualsarticipated in the study.
the patients were recruited through referral from neurologists at AIIMS, the researchers said. They claimed GSH estimation in Hippocampi,
Dr Kameshwar Prasad, professor and head of neurology at AIIMS, said the findings are preliminary."
said lead author Akrit Sodhi, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine. To find an explanation,
said lead author Akrit Sodhi, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine. To find an explanation,
and this has got applications in chemistry, engineering, biology, medicine, so there's a lot of potential there and that's just for research purposes,
and this has got applications in chemistry, engineering, biology, medicine, so there's a lot of potential there and that's just for research purposes,
which is published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, included 436 patients, all of whom had aggressive, inoperable malignant melanoma.
Alan Melcher, professor of clinical oncology and biotherapy at the University of Leeds, and an expert in oncolytic viruses, said the field had accelerated quickly in recent years."
which is published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, included 436 patients, all of whom had aggressive, inoperable malignant melanoma.
Alan Melcher, professor of clinical oncology and biotherapy at the University of Leeds, and an expert in oncolytic viruses, said the field had accelerated quickly in recent years."
This is an important step for the future production of large numbers of these cells for use in cell transplantation therapies or large-scale drug screens, researchers from the Molecular Medicine Institute in Lisbon,
the team led by Domingos Henrique from the Molecular Medicine Institute in Lisbon, Portugal decided to follow a different strategy."
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The families received testing in the lab of Susanne Kohl, the study's first author from Centre for Ophthalmology at University of Tuebingen in Germany.
%The innovation is an'extra cut'-a dissection in medical parlance-along the neck to detect
The cut would be a prophylaxis-a preventive medicine-against aggressive cancer forms and prevent the need for chemotherapy or radiation.
The findings were announced by Tata Memorial Centre's Dr Anil D'Cruz at an ongoing meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology at Chicago on May 31.
The findings were published also in the latest edition of New england Journal of Medicine. The study assumes significance
It has been one of medicine's long standing ethical debate on whether or not early stage oral cancer patients should undergo a neck dissection.
%The innovation is an'extra cut'-a dissection in medical parlance-along the neck to detect
The cut would be a prophylaxis-a preventive medicine-against aggressive cancer forms and prevent the need for chemotherapy or radiation.
The findings were announced by Tata Memorial Centre's Dr Anil D'Cruz at an ongoing meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology at Chicago on May 31.
The findings were published also in the latest edition of New england Journal of Medicine. The study assumes significance
It has been one of medicine's long standing ethical debate on whether or not early stage oral cancer patients should undergo a neck dissection.
Surgeons first rewired remaining foot nerve endings from a patient's stump to healthy tissue in the thigh,
"Importantly, post-surgery recovery is quick and there are no known health dangers associated with the intervention,
Surgeons first rewired remaining foot nerve endings from a patient's stump to healthy tissue in the thigh,
"Importantly, post-surgery recovery is quick and there are no known health dangers associated with the intervention,
In a medical breakthrough, a 28-year-old woman has become the first person in the world to give birth to a baby using ovarian tissue that was removed
In a medical breakthrough, a 28-year-old woman has become the first person in the world to give birth to a baby using ovarian tissue that was removed
a breakthrough that could potentially save the careers of top athletes besides cure untreatable injuries caused from accidents and surgeries due to cancer."
but also address a wide range of medical issues such as treatments for people involved in car accidents,
those who have had surgery for cancer, or sufferers of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).""This technology could cure (recently retired Chinese hurdler) Liu Xiang's injury,
which can require surgery to correct. It is too soon to say if vosoritide can prevent any of those complications.
One is a torturous surgery that lengthens the legs by breaking them h
#First electric plane gets wings in China BEIJING: The world's first electric passenger aircraft to gain an airworthiness certificate has been produced by China,
"said Paul Dark, one of the researchers and honorary consultant in intensive care medicine at Salford Royal.
"said Stephen Fowler, clinical lecturer in the University of Manchester's Centre for Respiratory Medicine and Allergy.
"says Dr. Barbara Sherman, a clinical professor of behavioral medicine. Much of the technology comes off the shelf
"says Dr. Barbara Sherman, a clinical professor of behavioral medicine. Much of the technology comes off the shelf
Medical Research Council's (MRC) Toxicology Unit researchers at the University of Leicester and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found a key protein,
Professor Patrick Maxwell, chair of the MRC's Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board, said tackling malaria was a global challenge,
so could feasibly be kept on the shelf of doctors'surgery anywhere in the world. It can also be recycled for multiple uses without losing accuracy,
They hope that these findings will lead to the potential use of the existing antidiabetic medicines to reduce the viability of pancreatic and prostate cancer cells
The results of a pilot clinical study, carried out at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine under the supervision of Professor Peter Grant,
The results of a pilot clinical study, carried out at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine under the supervision of Professor Peter Grant,
published online in the medical journal The Lancet, were an"extremely promising development"."""This is going to be a game changer,
The medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF), which has led the fight against Ebola in West Africa,
In the study published in The New england Journal of Medicine, researchers from Sweden employed a mobile phone app on a sample of 30,000 patients from Stockholm, Sweden.
there was a 30 percent increase in CPR administration by onlookers before medical responders reached the spot.
And just a few weeks ago in early December we learned of a collaboration between 3d printing company Organovo and the Yale School of medicine that aims to pioneer 3d bioprinted surgical tissues themselves.
This Japanese announcement thus follows a current trend in medical science but they are reportedly doing it on a hitherto unseen scale.
which is expected to revolutionize medical help. And as an estimated 100000 people are on the waiting list for organ transplantation in the US alone it#s no wonder that the medical field is turning its focus towards 3d printing r
#Design Lab Workshop merges 3d printing with solar energy for glowing architecture As more architects look into ways of using additive manufacturing as a way of constructing their buildings,
3d models is becoming more and more commonplace, especially in the fields of medicine, CGI and graphic design.
2015 By Simon Born with a heart condition that resulted in her having two open heart surgeries before the time she was even four years old, Adaenelie Gonzalez, a four-year old from Miami, Florida in the United states,
recently underwent her third heart surgery last week. However unlike her previous open heart surgeries, the use of 3d printing enabled doctors to perform a third open heart surgery last week that may just be her last.
Gonzalez condition, which prevented blood from properly flowing into the heart from the lungs (also known as anomalous pulmonary venous connection),
Thankfully, a team of pediatric medicine professionals from Miami Children Hospital were able to scan Gonzalez heart
which was used for surgeons to study the condition. Creating an anatomically-correct 3d print of a patient heart is far from your run-of-the-mill 3d printing project, however.
the surgeons were able to practice manipulating the blood vessels and exploring all of the possible repairs without having to operate.
the surgeons were then able to create a map of every nerve and artery before attempting their third open heart surgery on the four-year old.
The use of the 3d printed model was critical for the surgery success in part
because the team had done never the surgical procedure before. Without properly training themselves the doctor ran the possibility of tragically killing the young girl
if any steps in the surgery went awry. Even though the doctors were previously able to study Gonzalez condition using traditional two-dimensional scans,
Thankfully, the ability to study the 3d printed model of Gonzalez heart proved to be an invaluable tool before heading into the surgery last week.
Already, Gonzalez is out of the bed and moving whereas before the surgery she could barely move
Thanks to the surgery, Gonzalez is expected at least to live through her teenage years. o me,
Thanks to the success of Gonzalez surgery, Miami Children Hospital plans on using 3d printing in the future for other surgical procedures."
"The fourth day after surgery I envisioned her still being on a breathing machine in the ICU getting massive amounts of medication,
medical professionals and others that regularly make use of additive manufacturing technologies to get excited about.
one of the more significant contributions wee seen the technology make hase been in the health and medical sector.
More recently, doctors at the Xiangya Hospital of Urology at Central South University in China were able to leverage 3d printing technology in an effort to help successfully remove a tumor from a 60-year-old woman kidney.
and veins-the surgery would have called for a removal of the entire kidney in most cases to avoid the risk of causing further damage to a patient.
Dr. Qi Lin, chose to use 3d printing to assist in the process of planning the surgery. To create the accurate replica of the patient kidney
and other details that would ultimately lead the surgery to success. On May 11th, Dr. Qi Lin-along with his medical team-performed the 90-minute surgery
and were successfully able to remove the tumor while keeping the kidney intact with patient.
the use of the 3d printed replica also dramatically reduced the length of the surgery;
when aided by the surgeon, it creates a situation where eeing is believingadded Dr. Qi Lin. his is true from multiple dimensions,
the arteries and the surrounding kidney tissue before surgery, practice the surgery and then decide on the correct path
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2015 has been a reakthroughyear that has shown significantly more promise for bio printing technologies-including the announcement of an upcoming surgery that will see a 3d printed thyroid gland be implanted for testing-a first of its kind.
and replicas used to prepare for unusual surgeries. Doubtlessly, the real 3d printing revolution in the medical world is yet to come:
bio 3d printing. Involving special bio-inks made from biocompatible polymers and cells, these could be used for 3d printing just about everything in the human body, from cartilage, to bone structures and theoretically even entire new organs.
And now a Swedish start-up called CELLINK has developed a bioink that could make this medical revolution happen as soon as possible.
At age 18, Erik Gatenholm started his first medical device company, manufacturing meniscus implants and other implants, such surgical meshes for ventral hernia repairs and wound dressings.
And in that respect, the 3d printed Peek short for the Portable Eye Examination Kit developed by a team of British ophthalmologists,
Perfect for use in third world countries and remote locations far from medical help, this kit essentially consists of a 3d printed add-on for smart phones that can be used to treat preventable blindness.
Previously, wee seen how medical researchers have been experimenting with something similar to create 3d bioprinted scaffolding for slowly introducing cells for a diabetic treatment process.
but the demonstration that one can achieve similar mechanical performance with a common biomedical polymer is a substantial advance iit is also quite exciting that these new tough gels can be used for 3d printing,
2015 By Simonalthough wee been seeing many recent applications for 3d printing being used effectively in the medical industry,
and ock-operatedon in an effort to let the surgeons better understand their patient condition before committing to the final surgical procedure.
not only more effective surgeries that have taken also considerably less time, but also less invasive surgeries that cost less.
But for all of the advantages of using 3d printing before a surgery what about using 3d printing as a tool for repairing an injured area or for after a surgery, too?
This is what Exovite, a new Spanish company consisting of professionals from different areas including medicine, electronics, computers,
mechanics and additive manufacturing technologies are currently looking at and they just might be able to make the healing process faster thanks to 3d printing.
Currently, the company is developing a system of immobilization and rehabilitation that will create a revolution in the field of orthopedics and musculoskeletal treatments.
Among other features of the system include savings in both time costs for both the medical professionals and the patients themselves.
Among other goals that the company hopes that users of their technology will achieve include optimized medical treatments as well as a more seamless user experience throughout the procedure due to an improved quality of the procedures themselves.
In other words, similar to how 3d printing has helped revolutionize how prosthetic devices are made both and fabricated, Exovite research and resulting technologies could have
users will even be able to share the healing progress with medical professionals online as well as receive advice based on the rate of healing.
In short, it could be the perfect filament for various technological and medical applications. And while some graphene successes have been achieved previously,
also makes the ink flexible and safe to use in medical situations. Led by Ramille Shah,
entitled hree-dimensional printing of high-content graphene scaffolds for electronic and biomedical applications. 3d printed graphene appeared on the cover.
And so far, biomedical experiments have been quite successful. As a test, her team populated a graphene scaffold with stem cells,
it is hardly surprising that we hear about exciting new (bioprinted) medical innovations almost every week.
#MEDPRIN 3d prints world first biological meningioma Redura for use in brain surgery While 3d bioprinting innovations sound lifesaving and revolutionary, most are still years away from impacting ordinary
and are already applying it in surgical rooms across the world. MEDPRIN is based in Guangzhou,
China and was founded by a team of biomedical scientists in 2008 as a developer of regenerative medical materials and devices.
and has received already a number of medical certificates, including from CE and CFDA. It has also reportedly been applied on tens of thousands of cases across the world
Usually, when patients undergo brain surgery, doctor first need to cut through a layer of protective tissue between the skull and the brain.
and successfully used in brain surgeries everywhere, they are not biological and have a tendency to disrupt a patient life-as most artificial meningioma layers contain metal parts
but when wet it begins to resemble a thin rubber surface perfect for use in surgical rooms.
he said. he core membrane adopts the most advanced 3d printing based bio-regenerative medical platform,
According to Xu Tao, the availability of 3d printed medical tissues could widely change over the coming years. issue repair is a complex human organ regeneration process,
we are leading the establishment of Guangzhou Research Institute of regenerative medical industry, seeking to integrate global and domestic regenerative medical technology
Whether its for medical use or for other scientific purposes, the ability to create custom objects using additive manufacturing methods at the nanoscale is allowing experts to manipulate objects at even the smallest levels.
The new results will help pave the way for DNA NANOTECHNOLOGY in medicine over the next 10 years.
physics and astronomy, to bioengineering, pathology and laboratory medicine. The Californa Nanosystems Institute and the Johnsson Comprehensive Cancer Center also contributed, with support from the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Since 3d printing technology is acknowledged already for being affordable and easily transportable to low-resource areas,
it is easy to imagine this kind of groundbreaking medical technology being used in remote, rural or developing countries, many
#Surgeons turn to 3d printing to help perform world first pediatric bilateral hand transplant in USA Although wee previously heard about the many remarkable instances where 3d printing has helped improve the quality of life for an individual thanks to its increased usage and acceptance in the medical industry,
none of the scenarios involved a surgical procedure as complicated as a hand transplant. Yet, thanks to a team of surgeons in Philadelphia, an 8-year-old boy can now throw the football thanks to a recent hand transplant that was made possible thanks to the aide of 3d printing.
The 8-year-old Zion Harvey, sadly lost his hands and feet to an infection several years ago and has learned
Dr. L. Scott Levin and another member of Zion surgical team created sample hands on a 3d printer that were based on CT SCANS of Zion forearms.
This week, it was announced by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia that the surgery, which occurred in early July,
and that Zion is both the first pediatric hand transplant patient in the U s as well as the world's first pediatric bilateral hand transplant patient.
the surgery took 10 hours and involved a team of 40 doctors and nurses from the Children's Hospital, Penn Medicine,
and Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. According to Dr. Benjamin Chang, a surgeon who was on Zion hand transplant team, the complicated surgery involved uniting 2 bones, 2 deep arteries, 4 veins, 10 nerves, and 22 tendons."(
"The challenge involved) bringing everything together so that they not only looked like hands, but also functioned as hands,
Thanks to the thorough preparations performed by the surgical team in advance of the actual surgery, Zion recovery was limited to just a week in the hospital intensive care unit.
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