It s easy to think that medical robots were#last year s innovation. But while they re#not a new idea#doesn t mean that all
If robotics manage to subdue malaria where other modern medical technologies have failed so far, it will be a powerful sign of how much the technology might accomplish as it matures.
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
A report by the American Heart Association, Forecasting the Future of Cardiovascular disease in the United states, believes the total direct medical costs of cardiovascular disease will reach $818. 1 billion over the next three decades.
but a groundbreaking idea could change the face of medicine for good. 3d software design companies Dassault systèmes
which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, says a third of those people make a decision to see
After all, medicine is a business where customer service is important, but it also a science. Doctors are often talkative during the ubjectivepart of an exam,
Glass has seen its strongest professional reception in medicine, with a variety of pilot programs in hospitals, operating rooms,
and other parts of medical life. t way too early to tellif Glass will become standard in medical schools,
ut a lot of people in medical education are interested. She heads up Medtech Boston a nonprofit organization that has been conducting projects
and competitions involving medical uses of Glass. Joe noted a surprising fact: Medical schools in the U s. are generally slow to adopt new technologies,
and was used for collecting data as well as video t would dramatically change medical education. Imagine an attending physician seeing what you saw during a simulation,
In August, another 20 to 30 pairs will go to first-and second-year students, for use in anatomy labs, the medical simulation center, the ultrasound institute,
And an unusual point-of-view will be added to Glassgrowing medical repertoire: the patient. hat one of the uses I most excited about,
assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at the UCI medical school and head of the Glass program there.
search-and-rescue and in the medical domain, we can take the idea of in-theater robots completely off the table,
The use of animal testing for medical research than for cosmetics testing is much easier to defend.
Even as medical researchers produce rgans on a chipto help with drug testing, developing human skin for cosmetics testing has remained elusive.
Consumer Physics has developed three different applications for identifying food, medicines, and plants. During a short demo,
Concierge medicine could also be a potential new revenue stream for the Mayo Clinic. Fast Company has covered previously New york-based medical concierge service Sherpaa and Oscar, a new health insurer which tailors its products for web and mobile use.
Because apps and subscription services are largely outside of the scope of FDA regulations, they are a potential moneymaker for health-minded businesses and entrepreneurs,
The Mayo Clinic is entering a crowded market of smartphone-based concierge medicine firms. Beyond Sherpaa, there also Grand Rounds, Stat Doctors, Doctor on Demand,
which offers subsidized concierge medicine services via smartphones for residents of British columbia. For Better, the Mayo Clinic,
and other concierge medicine providers, the real (and unanswered) question is just how much of a market for their services really exists via smartphone apps s
When Hall first saw the wireless bulb, she immediately thought of medical technology seeing that devices transplanted beneath the skin could be charged non-intrusively.
Witricity is now working with a medical company to recharge a left-ventricular assist device heart-pump essentially.
or deliver food and medical supplies to disaster areas. As the science advances, it becoming increasingly possible to dispatch robots into war zones alongside or instead of human soldiers.
a post-doc in Blau lab who is a co-author of the recent study published in Nature Medicine.
in our opinion, is the future of medicine. f
#Dealing with Drought: Reaping the Benefits of Cover crops (Op-Ed) Margaret Mellon is a senior scientist for food and the environment at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.
and into medical sutures scaffolds and protective burn coverings that dissolve over time Making Shrilk required carefully analyzing the chemistry of insect chitin.
The U s. Food and Drug Administration has approved already Shrilk's ingredients which would make it easier to use for medical purposes.
Medical applications So what are some uses for software that can identify human emotions based on facial expressions?
such as in the medical industry. A surgeon could potentially ook through his hands to what he is actually operating on, for instance.
and why people have used it as medicine for thousands of years. Its viscosity acidity and sugar content make it good at sealing wounds
7 Clever Technologies Inspired By nature DNA alphabet The field of synthetic biology involves tinkering with DNA to create organisms capable of novel functions in medicine, energy and other areas.
"Compare this to a medicinal chemist, who explores a much greater diversity of structures in the small-molecule drugs they synthesize,
and pieced together from scratch paving the way for designer organisms that could produce new medicines food products
Today he said the fungus is used also to makevaccines medicines and biofuels and the ability to create custom-made yeast would provide useful too for the biotech industry.
For example researchers could make synthetic strains of yeast to produce rare medicines such as the malarial drug artemisinin or vaccines like the Hepatitis b vaccine.
while spending 45 days in a previously unexplored region of the continent, are beaming their medical information back to civilization while wearing Astroskin graphicastroskin.
Aside from its importance in the development of quantum computers, the maser could also lead to advancements in a variety of fields such as communications, sensing and medicine,
Politics and approval In a conference call with analysts and reporters, Geron's president and CEO Thomas Okarma said that the trial"marks the dawn of a new era in medical therapeutics.
a UK medical research charity that is funding the new grant along with the UK's Department for International Development and Canada's International Development Research Council.
They also want to raise an endowment from international donors that could provide a more stable source of funding for medical research in Kenya.
The technique was unveiled last May at the International Society for Magnetic resonance in Medicine meeting in Toronto
In addition, for many cases of prostate cancer, new research published in May 2012 in The New england Journal of Medicine shows that treatment does not actually extend the life of the patient."
#Overharvesting leaves Himalayan Viagra fungus feeling short Yarsagumba, the world s most expensive medicinal fungus, is in serious decline in Nepal because of over-harvesting,
and Tibetan medicine for a wide range of conditions including impotence, asthma and cancer. The peculiar life cycle of the fungus has earned also it the names'winter worm, summer grass'and'caterpillar fungus'.
Although remedial courses have been available for physicians for more than a decade#with many returning to medicine to forge successful careers#Dubois says that Repair is the first such programme for researchers.
"What a great day for science, says Amy Comstock Rick, president of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research in WASHINGTON DC, an umbrella group of organizations that advocate for the research.
parallel universe of unexplored RNAS, says Nikolaus Rajewsky, the lead author of one of the studies and a systems biologist at the Max Delbr#ck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin.
is sponsored by the Europe s Innovative Medicine Initiative. The European commission s Seventh Framework Programme is contributing##80#million to the venture,
which will be touting for customers at a meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics in Phoenix, Arizona, on 19-23 march.
But one of the biggest questions will be how deeply analysis companies can reach into medical settings,
and William Krauss, professor of biomedical engineering, medicine and nursing at Duke university. The research was supported by NIH Grants R01ar055226 and R01ar065873 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin disease and UH2TR000505 from the NIH Common Fund for the Microphysiological Systems Initiative.
Now, as part of a joint international project, a team of young researchers at the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical engineering at Meduni Vienna has succeeded in identifying the mechanisms the spinal cord uses to control this muscle activity.
explains study author Simon Danner, from the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical engineering of Meduni Vienna.
said study co-leader David B. Goldstein, Phd, professor of genetics and development and director of the new Institute for Genomic Medicine at CUMC.
especially in the context of precision medicine and whole-genome sequencing.""Industry and academia often do things together,
where the gene is thought to play a role in tumor-cell survival. his is a great example of the potential of precision medicine,
and director of Columbia university-wide precision medicine initiative. t now seems clear that future ALS treatments will not be equally effective for all patients because of the disease genetic diversity.
senior researcher at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. ut in recent years wee developed much more sensitive methods of analysis that allow us to see which genes are active in individual cells.
The study was carried out by Sten Linnarsson and Jens Hjerling-Leffler research groups at the department of medical biochemistry and biophysics, in particular by Amit Zeisel and Ana Muños Manchado.
the EU Seventh Framework Programme, the Swedish Society of Medicine, the Swedish Brain Fund, Karolinska Institutet strategic programme for neuroscience (Stratneuro), the Human Frontier Science Program
and progression of the disease, said Gerard Schellenberg, Phd, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,
said Anders M. Dale, Phd, professor of neurosciences and radiology and director of the Center for Translational Imaging and Precision Medicine at UC San diego and the study senior author e
and deliver medicines to specific locations. Yes, creepy but also undeniably cool. At the ICRA 2015 conference in Seattle, researchers from MIT and TU Munich presented just such a creation in a presentation titled (cleverly) n Untethered Miniature Origami Robot That Self-folds, Walks, Swims,
New findings published in the journal Future Medicine suggest that we may have another way forward.
A medical research team at Florida International University in Miami injected 20 billion nanoparticles into the brains of mice
Karachi hospitals have treated nearly 80,000 people for the effects of heatstroke and dehydration, according to medical officials.
edible barcodes that can be planted right onto medicine to verify that the pills and tablets you might consume are the real deal.
According to Wuh, a medical doctor, this kind of wider recognition is an indication that these bite-size barcodes could play a role in a tech revolution sweeping through medicine. t (Trutag) is really a game-changer
missing just one case of latent syphilis, the team reports online today in Science Translational Medicine.
and 27"other contacts"are under medical surveillance. None of those quarantined or under surveillance in Hong kong and China have showed any signs of illness so far.
nearly as good as young animals at completing the water maze, for instance, the scientists report online today in Nature Medicine.
This helps medical technicians localise and examine tissues inside your body but requires bulky equipment.
Medical emergency For now, the only humans in space venture no further than the International space station.
so medical tools need to be relatively light but capable of handling many kinds of situations."
They will also run medical and technical tests and broadcast a science lesson to Chinese students from orbit.
Additionally more than 60 research organizations across the globe are using the system on management social psychology medicine computer science and physical therapy among other things.
They envision that this stable erasable and easy-to-retrieve memory will be suited well for applications such as sensors for environmental and medical monitoring.
for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES). This center is built around a bold idea: to accelerate our progress toward a world in
which was established at MIT in 2012 to tackle some of the world s biggest health challenges through interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of engineering science and clinical medicine.
Collaboration between academic investigators and real-world clinicians is vital to the center s purpose according to Xavier who also serves as the Kurt Isselbacher Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical school.
Microbiome-based medicine is poised to revolutionize patient care for IBD and many other diseases in the gastrointestinal tract he says.
or medical interventions based on reprogramming an individual s immune system. We need to develop a toolkit for engineering the human microbiome Alm says.
and a member of the Koch Institute the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES and the Department of Chemical engineering and Henry Brem a professor of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins. The lead author is Urvashi Upadhyay previously a neurosurgeon
Results of both trials were published in 2012 in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Last year, Taris began an ongoing focus study specifically on patients with Hunner lesions.
the Heinrich-Pette Institute and the Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg Germany;
for Medical Engineering and Science and an author of the new paper. These fatty molecules have shown promise as delivery vehicles for RNA interference a process that allows disease-causing genes to be turned off with small strands of RNA.#
#Jeff Karp an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical school who was not part of the research team says this work is an excellent example of harnessing a multidisciplinary team to partner complementary technologies for the purpose of solving a unified problem.
The study which appears today in the journal Nature Medicine is based on an analysis of blood samples from 1500 people participating in long-term health studies.
The paper s other senior author is Brian Wolpin an assistant professor of medical oncology at Dana-Farber.
It s based on a naturally occurring biomarker that does not require any biochemical processing of samples says Han one of the senior authors of a paper describing the technique in the Aug 31 issue of Nature Medicine.
Indeed a 2006 report from the Institute of Medicine found that 1. 5 million hospitalized patients in the United states experience medication errors every year due in part to drug-administration mistakes.
Medication verification is a pinnacle point of medical safety says Helgason a physician and product developer.
They were developed in the laboratories of co-senior author Daniel G. Anderson the Samuel A. Goldblith Associate professor of Chemical engineering an affiliate of MIT's Institute of Medical Engineering and Science;
About the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvardthe Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was launched in 2004 to empower this generation of creative scientists to transform medicine.
says Daniel Anderson, the Samuel A. Goldblith Associate professor of Chemical engineering, a member of MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science,
Masanori Aikawa, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical school, describes the new technology as monumental contributionthat should help researchers develop new treatments
and customize says Anderson who is also a member of MIT s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science.
The research was funded by the Harvard Neurodiscovery Center, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation,
and colonoscopy used in the developed world are too costly to be implemented in settings with little medical infrastructure.
and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science is the senior author of a paper describing the particles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Feb 24.
Stocker says in some cases that phenomenon could lead to new approaches to tuning flow rates to prevent fouling of surfaces by microbes potentially averting everything from bacteria getting a toehold on medical equipment to biofilms causing drag on ship hulls.
Guasto says the new understanding could help in the design of medical equipment to reduce such infections:
The researchers, including senior author Bruce Volpe of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, N y,
a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of California at Irvine. obotic measurements will help us identify promising treatments with smaller numbers of patients
and medical conditions, including types of conditions that may be most readily treatable in primary-care situations. n no case were we able to find any subpopulations,
however, suggest nuances to the current debates over the expansion of Medicaid, medical costs, and the role of emergency rooms in providing care.
reduces out-of-pocket expenses or unpaid medical debt; and increases self-reported good health. In a 2013 paper published in the New england Journal of Medicine,
they showed that Medicaid coverage reduces the incidence of depression but does not produce measured improvements in physical health.
Eric Perreault, a professor of biomedical engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University, says the group findings present the first insight into how muscle activation alters the ankle mechanical properties over its normal range of motion,
and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES). Lead authors of the paper are Kevin Lin a graduate student in chemical engineering and Gabriel Kwong a postdoc in IMES.
The technology was described in a paper published last year in the journal Science Translation Medicine,
and heart disease and a lack of permanent oatingsfor medical implants that might help these patients.
In the Science Translation Medicine paper, the cofounders exposed polysb-modified catheters to blood for 60 days.
and Gregory Kato of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Squeezing by People with sickle cell disease,
This research was supported in part by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National institute of mental health, the Simons Foundation, the Simons Center for the Social Brain at MIT,
a research scientist at MIT Institute for Medical science and Engineering (IMES) and senior author of a paper describing the findings in the Jan 28 online edition of Science Translational Medicine. e present a new paradigm by
Detailed study of tissue and biomaterial interactions can open a new chapter in precision medicine,
In that study, published in a 2012 issue of Science Translational Medicine, microchips were implanted into seven elderly women,
from environmental remediation to medical analysis. The polymers are synthesized at room temperature, and don need to be prepared specially to target specific compounds;
offering the example of a cheap testing kit for urine analysis of medical patients. The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,
and an expert in nanoengineering for health care and medical applications. hen you think about field deployment,
It could help medical professionals diagnose disease and identify the boundaries of tumors.""This nanoparticle may open the door for new'hypermodal'imaging systems that allow a lot of new information to be obtained using just one contrast agent,
new tool for medical imaging,"says Prasad, also a SUNY Distinguished Professor of chemistry, physics, medicine and electrical engineering at UB."
a new type of nanoscale surface that bacteria can't stick to holds promise for applications in the food processing, medical and even shipping industries.
and could be as revolutionary to modern medicine as its twentieth century predecessor r
#Scalable growth of high quality bismuth nanowires Bismuth nanowires have intriguing electronic and energy harvesting application possibilities.
thus be practical both in medical research as well as for diagnosis. The conversion of hydrogen peroxide to water,
We could compare preservation of cultural heritage to medicine where the works of art play the role of the patients:
but must then be complemented by the development of medicines (advanced restoration materials) to cure the patient (restore the work of art).
and IBM's T. J. Watson Research center have developed a prototype DNA reader that could make whole genome profiling an everyday practice in medicine.
This particular PTT treatment does not involve any medicine but only generates local heat within the tumor therefore posing much less side effects than the traditional chemo or radiation therapies.
Shi added that physicians are frustrated often with the current conventional means for early imaging of cancer cells through Medical Resonance Imaging
Walker and Das utilized another Queen's discovery repoopulate created by Elaine Petrof (Medicine. repoopulate is a synthetic stool substitute
#Paper electronics could make health care more accessible Flexible electronic sensors based on paper an inexpensive material have the potential to some day cut the price of a wide range of medical tools from helpful robots
Researchers synthesize platelet-like nanoparticles that can do more than clot blood (Phys. org) Stanching the free flow of blood from an injury remains a holy grail of clinical medicine.
Controlling blood flow is a primary concern and first line of defense for patients and medical staff in many situations from traumatic injury to illness to surgery.
This technology could address a plethora of clinical challenges said Dr. Scott Hammond director of UCSB's Translational Medicine Research Laboratories.
One of the biggest challenges in clinical medicine right now which also costs a lot of money is that we're living longer
And more immediately they're already used in medical detectors for example the pregnancy tests you buy over-the-counter work use gold nanoparticles attached to antibodies.
Why are they good for medical detection? Nanoparticles have an extremely high surface area in relation to their volume.
-or even nanorobots could someday perform medical tasks in the human body. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have taken now a first step towards this goal.
As in the case of their plastic micro-scallop the researchers also envision medical applications for their nanosubmarine.
Hersam a professor of materials science engineering chemistry and medicine at Northwestern University has developed a method to separate nanomaterials by size
In addition to diagnosing medical conditions, the device could be modified to monitor environmental conditions for instance, identifying harmful airborne agents produced through automotive or chemical industry practices.
The research which has been published in the journal Small drew on the medical expertise of Dr Neil Smyth and Dr Michael Ardern-Jones as well as contributions from physicist Professor Otto Muskens.
Currently patients must frequently apply the medicine three times a day because of the eye's ability to self-cleanse a process that washes away 95 per cent of the drug.
a field that uses biology to develop new tools for science, technology and medicine. The new study, published in print today in the journal Nano Letters,
The new structures can lead to sensors and chips for future devices like smartphones computers and medical equipment.
#Researcher develops optically traceable smart 2-D nanosheet that responds to ph Nanoparticles have the potential to revolutionize the medical industry
so that when the sheet unrolls it releases the medicine. PH responsive nanosheets for example could prove useful for targeting different parts of the human digestive tract
The technology has extensive applications in medical equipment and national security since an electron beam is a critical component in generating X-rays.
and medicines then you could transport the vesicle by creating a small opening and only allow the fuel to get out.
This transformative technology enables highly specific low-power high-throughput physiological sensing that can be multiplexed to detect a number of significant disease-specific factors in real time commented Scott Hammond executive director of UCSB's Translational Medicine
Now researchers from the University of Surrey and Trinity college Dublin have treated for the first time common elastic bands with graphene to create a flexible sensor that is sensitive enough for medical use
Patients must take medicine frequently and can suffer side effects since the contents of pills spread through the bloodstream to the whole body.
energy storage and energy generation takes it a step closer to being used in medicine and human health.
#World's smallest propeller could be used for microscopic medicine If you thought that the most impressive news in shrinking technology these days was smart watches,
The impact of these miraculous microscopic machines on medicine can only be imagined, but there is no doubt that it will be significant.
the real significance is how they might affect medicine.""One can now think about targeted applications,
which is used now in the medical field to detect biomarkers in the early stages of disease.
called plasmonic biosensors, could ultimately become a key asset in personalised medicine by helping to diagnose diseases at an early stage.
Personalised medicine is one of the new developments that is deemed to revolutionise health care. A key component is the detection of biomarkers, proteins in blood or saliva, for example,
because it will be a component of future medicine, "says Alexandre Brolo, professor of chemistry specialised in nanotechnology research,
vaccinations, cancer imaging and other medical treatments. Currently, the predominant practice is using viruses for delivery to cells.
The new technology also has major medical implications. Currently, memory used in computers and phones is made with silicon substrates, the surface on
To obtain medical information from a patient such as heart rate or brainwave data, stiff electrode objects are placed on several fixed locations on the patient's body.
much like a medical X-ray CT SCAN. With the aid of special computer software researchers combine these images to form a three-dimensional picture,
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