3D printing of silicone components
ETH spin-off Spectroplast has developed a method to make silicone products using a 3D printer. The young company now plans to bring to market customised...
Category : Bionics
Researchers Develop Wireless ‘Pacemaker for the Brain’
A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a novel neurostimulator that can listen to and stimulate electric current in the...
Controlling Neurons with Light, But Without Wires or Batteries
Summary: Researchers have developed a new, wireless optogenetic device which is able to control neurons in the brain. The device could help turn off pain...
Engineers create an inhalable form of messenger RNA
Messenger RNA, which can induce cells to produce therapeutic proteins, holds great promise for treating a variety of diseases. The biggest obstacle to this approach...
First 3D-Printed Rib Implant a Success
A Bulgarian man became the first patient to receive a 3D-printed rib implant. Thirty-five-year-old Ivaylo Josifov went to the doctor for tonsillitis, and came home...
Researchers 3D print prototype for ‘bionic eye’
A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota have, for the first time, fully 3D printed an array of light receptors on a hemispherical...
Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Alzheimer’s in Brain Scans Six Years Before Diagnosis
Summary: A new machine learning algorithm was able to predict, with 98% accuracy, which patients would develop Alzheimer’s disease, six years prior to diagnosis by...
Artificial intelligence turns brain activity into speech
For many people who are paralyzed and unable to speak, signals of what they’d like to say hide in their brains. No one has been...