Medical Technology

Imagine that it is possible, through a tiny adhesive electronic stamp attached to the arm, to know in real time...

Decorating the outside of cells like tiny antenna, a diverse community of sugar molecules acts like a telecommunications system, sending...

Diagnosing a heart attack can require multiple tests using expensive equipment. But not everyone has access to such techniques, especially...

A research team led by UC Berkeley engineers has developed a new smartphone microscope that uses video to automatically detect...

Researchers at the University of Houston have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive smartphone to...

Implantable device could allow doctors to test cancer drugs in patients before prescribing chemotherapy. More than 100 drugs have been...

Tiny particles embedded in gel can turn off drug-resistance genes, then release cancer drugs. Chemotherapy often shrinks tumors at first,...

If a mobile phone rings during a meeting, its owner often has to dig it out before it can be...

Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have tested a temporary tattoo that both extracts and measures the level...

Newly developed tiny antennas, likened to spotlights on the nanoscale, offer the potential to measure food safety, identify pollutants in...

Researchers from UPM have developed a manufacturing method of aluminum optical nanosensors on versatile substrates that can be used for...

By loading magnetic nanoparticles with drugs and dressing them in biochemical camouflage, Houston Methodist researchers say they can destroy blood...

An estimated 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide. Age-related macular degeneration alone is the leading cause of blindness among...

Researchers working at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have captured the first X-ray portraits of living bacteria....