Medical Technology

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...

A University of Utah team discovered a method for turning a small, $40 needle into a 3-D microscope capable of...

Researchers have developed an implantable device that precisely monitors acid build-up in the body for people with diabetes and produces...

For the first time in the world, a patient with a mechanical heart pump is taking part in a new...

Last year Karl Deisseroth, a Stanford professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, announced a new way of...

Biologists and doctors rely heavily on incubators and microscopes. Now the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT has come up...

The study was led by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)─designated Albert Einstein Cancer Center of Albert Einstein College...

Rice University bioengineers are developing a simple, highly accurate test to detect signs of HIV and its progress in patients...

Changes in coldness, creaminess or texture that we experience in the mouth while we are eating an ice cream can...

Results from the first study of the clinical application of next generation DNA sequencing (NGS) in screening embryos for genetic...

Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built the smallest, fastest and...

A wireless system developed by Assistant Professor Ada Poon uses the same power as a cell phone to safely transmit...

Dogs can be trained to sniff out evidence of prostate cancer in human urine with near-perfect accuracy, Italian researchers report....

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Tokyo have created electronic devices that become soft...

The ability to transfer a gene or DNA sequence from one animal into the genome of another plays a critical...

Researchers develop new method for lowering high blood pressure without side effects. The cuff is equipped with electrodes that can...

Scientists have taken a large step toward making a fiber-like energy storage device that can be woven into clothing and...

Newly detected ‘energy-clustering’ structures inside rare-earth nanoparticles generate intense violet light, which is ideal for studying photon-induced transformations A novel...

A smartphone app that monitors subtle qualities of a person's voice during everyday phone conversations shows promise for detecting early...