Researchers from Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Pennsylvania are the first to demonstrate a flexible silicon electronics device used for a medical application. The device produced high-density maps of a beating heart's electrical activity, providing a potential...

An ultrasensitive medical imaging technique from Purdue University, which uses a pulsed laser and tiny metallic "nanocages," might enable early detection and treatment of disease. The system works by shining near-infrared laser pulses through the skin to detect hollow nanocages and solid nanoparticles - made of an...

It's illegal for health products with medical formulations to be accepted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration without tests on animals - a situation that has serious ethical and moral implications. New research in the field of tissue engineering, by Professor Amit Gefen of Tel Aviv University's Faculty of...