Global Innovations

Nanoscale Sculpturing of Metals Can Improve Biocompatibility for Implants

Kiel University Kiel, Germany www.uni-kiel.de/pressemeldungen How metals can be used depends particularly on the characteristics of their surfaces. A research team at...

Device Can Diagnose Helicobacter from Exhaled Air

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. Espoo, Finland www.vttresearch.com/media/news In the future, selected illnesses will be quickly and painlessly diagnosed by the optical analysis of...

Making Robot Caregivers Safer

University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands www.utwente.nl/en/news According to a study conducted at the Robotics and Mechatronics department at the University of Twente in The Netherlands, robots carry out...

Surgical Robotic System for Incision-Less Surgery

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China www.polyu.edu.hk A team of engineers from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have collaborated on an...

Metamaterials Can Enhance Sensitivity of MRI Machines

National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia http://en.ifmo.ru/en/ A collaboration of researchers from Russia,...

Robotic Glove Can Help Restore Hand Movements

National University of Singapore, Singapore http://news.nus.edu.sg/ Patients who have lost their function in their hand due to injury or a nerve-related condition, such as stroke or muscular...

Self-Healing Sensor for ‘Electronic Skin’

The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel www.ats.org Flexible sensors have been developed for use in consumer electronics, robotics, health care, and spaceflight. One problem with...

Liquid Crystal Artificial Eye Lens

University of Leeds, UK www.leeds.ac.uk A postgraduate research student, Devesh Mistry, in the University of Leeds School of Physics and Astronomy, UK, is working with liquid crystal to create a truly...

Graphene Coating Could Aid Chemotherapy

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway http://gemini.no/en/ Silver, which has non-toxic qualities, is often used as a coating on medical equipment used for chemotherapy. But,...

Laser-Driven Source of X-Rays for Medical Imaging

Ludwig-Maximilians University and Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics Munich, Germanywww.mpq.mpg.de/en A team of physicists at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich and the Max Planck...

World’s First New Mercury-Free Light Source for Skin Treatment

Kobe University, Kobe, Japan www.kobe-u.ac.jp/en A team of scientists at the Kobe University Graduate School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Medicine has jointly...

New Chip Design for Medical Devices

Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden www.desyre.eu Three years ago, the DeSyRe (on-Demand System Reliability) project was begun with the goal of enabling extremely reliable medical devices....

Preventing Pressure Sores in Wheelchair Users with ‘Smart’ Textiles

Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia, Valencia, Spain The research project PUMA (Pressure Ulcer Measurement and Actuation), founded by the European Commission, and...

Spinal Implant May Combat Paralysis

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerlandhttp://actu.epfl.ch Spinal cord injuries may no longer mean a lifetime of paralysis, say researchers at EPFL. They have developed a new...

Creating Sensitive Gels for Glucose Testing

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan www.oist.jp Transforming liquids into gels plays an important role in many industries, including cosmetics, medicine,...

X-Ray Detector Examines Materials from Inside Out

Fraunhofer Development Center X-Ray Technology EZRT, Division of Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Fürth, Germany www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en.html Anyone who has flown in the...

Robotic Walker Aids in Stroke Therapy

National University of Singapore www.nus.edu.sg Regaining mobility after a stroke or other neurological conditions such as spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and Parkinson’s disease is often...

Customized Imaging for Manufacturing Surface Inspection

Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, Munich, Germany www.fraunhofer.de/en Quality control of component surfaces can be very complex. Researchers at the Fraunhofer...

Detecting Deadly Lung Cancer by Scent

Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel www.aftau.org According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lung cancer is the leading cause of death in the US and the second most common cancer...

Creating More Durable Joint Implants

Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland www.empa.ch Natural joints can wear out due to daily stress and body movement, so you would expect that an...

X-Ray Detector Provides Medical Imaging Performance on Plastic

Holst Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and Imec, Leuven, Belgium http://www2.imec.be/be_en/home.html A team of researchers from the Holst Centre working with colleagues at Imec...

Self-Labeling Syringe Wins International Design Prize

The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid), Montréal, Canada, awarded the 2013-2014 World Design Impact Prize to A Behavior Changing (ABC) Syringe, designed and led...

Sensor Belt Measures Longest ECG Ever

www.kit.edu/english/ Patients with cardiac diseases may ignore symptoms for months before an emergency arises. Then, seconds count. A long-term recorded electrocardiogram (ECG) may help physicians determine...

Inking Orthopaedic Implants During Surgery

University of Wollongong, NSW, Australiawww.uow.edu.au A hand-held device they call a “BioPen” has been developed by researchers at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, Australian Research...

Electronic Bodysuit Could Treat Neurologically Impaired

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, http://www.kth.se/en A specially-designed elastic bodysuit covered with electrodes, which was designed at Stockholm’s KTH Royal...

Detecting Early Warning Signs of Osteoporosis

University of Southampton, Southampton, UK http://www.southampton.ac.uk Osteoporosis causes bones to lose mass and become weak. However, for many sufferers, the first indication that they have the...

Blocking Biofilms to Prevent Bacterial Infection of Implanted Devices

Ithree Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia http://www.ithreeinstitute.uts.edu.au/about/index.html Understanding the enemy, in this case, bacteria...

Analyzing Single Cells at the Patient’s Bedside

Imagine a tool the size of a credit card that can analyze single cells with a throughput of more than 2 million cells per second. Moreover, the tool retains each cell of interest for downstream...

Brain Retraining Device for Stroke Rehabilitation

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Chinahttp://www.polyu.edu.hk/cpa/polyu/index.php Ateam of researchers in the Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at The...