The team used two different AI approaches to design novel antibiotics, including one that showed promise against MRSA.
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Engineers face multiple design challenges and constraints in the development of wearable diabetes devices. Smaller, reliable, and robust components are helping usher in the next generation of diabetes care devices.
The human determinants of research are key for making progress, as championed by amputee Massimo Munzi who is helping improve prosthetics, as well as EPFL's neuroprosthetic researcher Jonathan Muheim.
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Industrial injection molding is an advanced manufacturing process that delivers consistent and reliable results even in mass production. When it comes to glucose monitors, the shape, size and durability of every component must be perfect and this is possible thanks to industrial injection molding.
A new type of tissue-engineered cardiac patch could not only seal defective areas of the heart, as has been the case up to now, but also heal them. An interdisciplinary team led by ETH Zurich has successfully implanted the patch in animals.
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Memory loss, tremors, paralysis: when parts of the nervous system start to break down – or get broken – the consequences for human health can be staggering. Can we fix the nervous system, and how are scientists approaching the problem?
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Fabricated with a gel side for carrying drugs and a magnetic side for steering, these microrobots can navigate complex biological environments like intestines.
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In this episode, we explore MenstruAI, a pioneering technology that transforms a standard sanitary towel into a paper-based test strip to detect biomarkers in menstrual blood
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A microneedle patch captures cancer biomarkers in the top-most layer of skin to detect melanoma in animal tissue samples.
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Ring design could be used in telecom, medicine and more
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A team of researchers from ITMO University, Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy), and the University of Brescia (Italy) have developed a new approach to control the properties of metasurfaces using laser radiation.
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The new implant carries a reservoir of glucagon that can be stored under the skin and deployed during an emergency — with no injections needed.
In a small clinical study, users of this prosthesis navigated more easily and said the limb felt more like part of their body.
The first of its kind, a new adhesive for wearable medical devices could offer relief for allergy-prone skin.
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Reliable connections are critical in cutting-edge medical devices.
