Bone protein could provide cure for diabetics
A protein primarily used to help mend bones can also force pancreatic cells to produce insulin. The discovery made by researchers at the Diabetes Research Institute in Florida could mean that those...
View ArticleBiology not chronology reveals your true age
Scientists say they have found a new way to measure how old you are biologically rather than chronologically. Swedish researchers believe that a good indicator of biological age is a simple blood test....
View ArticleInvestment in centres to tackle life-threatening diseases
On Wednesday, George Freeman, the Life Sciences Minister, announced a new investment worth £10 million for five new UK-wide research centres. The centres, which are funded by the Engineering and...
View ArticleSmartphones to have ‘diet scanner’ technology
Technology which allows users to find out the sugar content in fruit or the fat in a piece of cheese could soon be widespread within a few years. Israeli start-up company, Consumer Physics, have...
View ArticleNew technology could detect cancers earlier
A simple blood test being developed by genomics company Illumina could spot cancer signs from drops of blood in healthy people before any signs of symptoms. Renowned tech founders like Bill Gates and...
View ArticleNew collaboration to offer 3D printed implants to UK patients
JRI Orthopaedics, a Sheffield healthcare company has partnered with 3D printing services provider Mobelife to provide hip and shoulder implants to patients who face challenging reconstructive surgery....
View ArticleEight innovative researchers awarded prestigious Enterprise Fellowships
The Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Hub has awarded Enterprise Fellowships to support eight researchers in in developing their innovations. These researchers were recognised as developing...
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Virtual Reality & Robotics Help Paralyzed Patients Learn to Walk Again
Long-term paraplegics, fully paralysed from the waist down, have experienced a partial recovery after training with virtual reality (VR) and robotic technologies. Researchers in Brazil carried out the...
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LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robot Kills Infection-Causing Microbes in Hopstials
Meet LightStrike – the robot making hospitals safer by zapping germs with UV rays. Across the world, hospitals are looking at innovative ways to battle deadly pathogens or kill antibiotic resistant...
View ArticleDARPA Announces Funding For a High-Resolution, Implantable Neural Interface
The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just announced contracts to fund five research groups and one company contracts as jump start its Neural Engineering System...
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MIT spinout PlenOptika aims to make vision care more accessible in developing...
Getting a glasses prescription is often difficult in developing countries. However, engineers at PlenOptika – an MIT spinout – aim to help with a new device that can create an estimated prescriptions...
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New imaging system makes back surgery safer, faster and less expensive
Engineers from Dartmouth College are pioneering a new way to make back surgery faster, cheaper and safer. Engineers from the Thayer School of Engineering and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth...
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AI to help arthritis patients manage their flare-ups
A partnership between UK health company Living With, the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (RUH), and the University of Bath has nabbed a major grant to develop a Rheumatoid Arthritis...
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Lego Braille bricks help visually impaired children learn
Lego has revealed its newest line of building blocks – however, these are a bit a different. The new Braille-based design aims to help visually impaired children learn the language. Your browser does...
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What neuroscientists are learning about our brains in space by launching...
More than 500 people have travelled into space to date and, while we know a little about how life without gravity affects our physical health, we know almost nothing about how it affects our minds. So,...
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AI can help spot when correlation does mean causation
New Artificial Intelligence (AI) tech has been developed that can merge overlapping and incomplete medical datasets to determine which variables are causative. How artificial intelligence tackles...
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Thin Graphene Oxide Nanosheets Safe for Human Inhalation in First Controlled...
Graphene oxide has generated substantial interest globally with applications in electronics, energy, medicine, and more. However, uncertainties around the human health impacts of manufactured...
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