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Tiny Robot Grippers Dissolve Away in Your Body Once Their Job is Done
Posted in Medicine on 26th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller
As robots get small enough to swim around inside the body, they'll soon be used to perform medical procedures all from within a patient.
A potential breakthrough in using electrical pulses to treat deadly glioblastoma brain tumors
Posted in Medicine on 24th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller
Experiments are leading toward effective treatments for humans with glioblastoma, the most common and deadly malignant brain tumor.
Self-healing nanogel acts as long-term drug supply
Posted in Medicine on 24th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller
MIT chemical engineers have designed a new type of self-healing hydrogel that can be injected through a syringe to supply one or two different drugs at a time.
New laser probe identifies brain cancer cells in real time
Posted in Medicine on 18th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller
An intraoperative handheld probe for cancer-cell-detection enables surgeons, for the first time, to detect more than 92% of invasive brain cancer cells during surgery.
To keep dangerous bacteria off medical devices, coat them with this liquid
Posted in Medicine on 14th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller
A liquid so slippery that bacteria just slide off it, preventing the formation of dangerous biofilms.