Medical

prostheticknowledge: OpenSurgeryRobotic design project by Frank Kolkman explores the idea of open source medical technology and whether an approach would be d...

txchnologist: The Skinny on Skin: Here’s Why It’s So Tough by Lisa Marie Potter, Inside Science Skin has to be flexible enough to jump, crawl, and kick with ...

emergentfutures: 10 Diseases That Might Afflict Us In The Future Today, humans suffer from a wide range of diseases and disorders that didn’t exist in the p...

txchnologist: A Failing Heart Gets A Hand This image was made using a specialized computed tomography (CT) scan of a patient’s thorax in 2013. It shows an am...

emergentfutures: New ultrasound chip could be a leap forward in cheap medical imaging Rothberg won’t say exactly how Butterfly’s device will work, or what it...

tacanderson: Brain-to-brain verbal communication in humans achieved for the first time Someday this will be incredibly impactful in treating non/less-verbal p...

telemedicine-today: TeleStroke units improve stroke care in underserved areas Using telecommunications to connect stroke experts to stroke patients in rural a...