We earlier reported that Japanese researchers have developed a prototype model of the micro medical robot that can reside and travel inside a human body to eliminate disease especially cancer. However, now, Dr. Nir Schwalb and Oded Salomon of the...
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Now, researchers at Purdue University's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering have found a new scaffold-like liquid material that could be injected into the body to fill in the gaps between injured or misplaced tissue before coagulating into a...
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Urology Robotics Lab are reporting the invention of a new MRI robot dubbed PneuStep that is intended to work within strong magnetic fields of the MRI machine and perform the MRI-guided organ biopsies.
The new motor,...
We have already talked about endoscopic pills here, here, here, and here. Now, a research funded by European Union has led to the invention of 'robot' that can be swallowed to look for cancer. The pill sized device will travel inside the body to...
The scientist of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a tiny implant made of Nanoparticles that when implanted in the human body can monitor the growth of tumor and the effect of chemotherapy on the tumor.
It is not the first time...
A team of Israeli scientists at Ben Gurion University is working on a BioPen or "Lab-in-a-Pen' that will assist patients with precise on-the-spot diagnosis for a number of diseases. The novel device has been developed especially to help soldiers in the...
New Mexico Tech researchers have found a new method to identify cancer cells at an early stage and to destroy them by developing a miniature sensor that works by means of a nanoparticle's light-emanating properties.
The researchers have claimed the...
Everyone knows the aftermaths of smoking but still people continue to puff away. Smoking can lead to cancer, heart disease, lung ailments and other maladies. If you still think that cigarette smoking can do no harm to you, you should try Smokerlyzer that...
Dr Thomas Force, who teaches medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, has revealed that the cancer-fighting drug, Gleevec can also be a cause of heart failure in leukemia patients under treatment.
Force urged...
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