Medical Technology

Future fitness trackers could soon add blood-oxygen levels to the list of vital signs measured with new technology developed by...

New findings show programmable biomaterials can be delivered using needle injection to induce an immune response and fight deadly diseases....

MIT chemists have developed new nanoparticles that can simultaneously perform magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and fluorescent imaging in living animals....

UC Davis researchers are getting a new look at the workings of HIV and other viruses thanks to new techniques...

Stanching the free flow of blood from an injury remains a holy grail of clinical medicine. Controlling blood flow is...

For detecting cancer, manual breast exams seem low-tech compared to other methods such as MRI. But scientists are now developing...

Given a choice, most patients would prefer to take a drug orally instead of getting an injection. Unfortunately, many drugs,...

A novel sensor that can wirelessly relay pressure readings from inside a tumor has been developed by researchers. Wireless interstitial...

Using magnetic fields, technique can detect parasite’s waste products in infected blood cells. Red blood cells from a patient infected...

Researchers at the University of Milan in Italy have shown that a synthetic protein called AGMA1 has the potential to...

Acoustic device that separates tumor cells from blood cells could help assess cancer’s spread. Photo Credit: Illustration Christine Daniloff/MIT Researchers...

A microscopic obstacle course of carefully spaced pillars enables researchers to observe cancer cells directly as they break away from...

Gene-based personalized medicine has many possibilities for diagnosis and targeted therapy, but one big bottleneck: the expensive and time-consuming DNA-sequencing...