7 life-saving medical innovations that could redefine healthcare
Over the past few years, several innovations have crossed important milestones, moving from experimental concepts toward real-world patient…
AI-powered closed-loop wearable bioelectronics for personalized and autonomous healthcare
Chen, C., Ding, S. & Wang, J. Digital health for aging populations. Nat. Med. 29, 1623–1630 (2023). Article …
Health system learning enables generalist neuroimaging models
Health system learning We define ‘health system learning’ as learning directly from uncurated data generated during routine clinical…
Large reasoning models as thinking machines for medicine
Jaech, A. et al. OpenAI o1 system card. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16720 (2024). Guo, D. et al. DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes…
Wearable, broadband auscultation patch with cantilever pressure transducer for remote healthcare monitoring
System overview Figure 1a illustrates multimodal applications of AusculPatch that can be attached to multiple sites of the…
New MRI Breakthrough Captures Stunningly Clear Images of the Eye and Brain
Researchers have developed a new type of MRI antenna inspired by metamaterials that could reveal hard-to-image areas of…
Researchers Discover Boosting a Single Protein Helps the Brain Fight Alzheimer’s
Scientists have discovered a way to activate a built-in brain cleanup system that may help counter Alzheimer’s disease.…
Natural Compounds Boost Bone Implant Success While Killing Bacteria and Cancer Cells
Bone implants are biomedical devices designed to replace, support, or regenerate damaged skeletal tissue, commonly used in orthopedic…
This Contrast Agent Acts Like a Magnet Around Soft Tissue
A doctor orders an X-ray for a patient with a knee ache. The bones look fine, and the…
Microrobots swim and steer with no brain, sensors, or software
Researchers at Leiden University have developed microrobots that can move, navigate, and adapt without a brain, sensors, or…
Magnetic resonance control of spin-correlated radical pair dynamics in vivo
Kaptein, R. & Oosterhoff, J. L. Chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization II: (relationwith anomalous ESR spectra). Chem. Phys.…
Long-term thrombus-free left atrial appendage occlusion via magnetofluids
Alkhouli, M. et al. Left atrial appendage occlusion: current advances and remaining challenges. JACC Adv. 1, 100136 (2022).…