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World’s most intelligent prosthetic limb? An interview with Professor Saeed Zahedi

The main challenges for lower limb amputees are safety and pain. Lack of sensory feedback leading to an increased risk of falling, compensatory movements due to instability causing lower back pain and discomfort between the residual limb and prosthesis all contribute to a significant reduction in confidence and an inability to live a full life.

7 Jul 2016

Experts discuss potential of DNA origami

Ten years after its introduction, DNA origami, a fast and simple way to assemble DNA into potentially useful structures, is finally coming into its own.

7 Jul 2016

BioTek Instruments expands in Canada

BioTek Instruments, Inc. affirms their ongoing investment across the North American microplate-based technology market with the expansion of their business in Canada. The dedicated sales and support operation will focus on bringing enhanced applications and technical support throughout the country.

6 Jul 2016

New method uses computer to scan esophagus images for signs of esophageal cancer

Recognizing the early stages of esophageal cancer is difficult because it can easily be missed. TU Eindhoven has therefore been working with the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven to develop a method to enable a computer to scan esophagus images for signs of esophageal cancer.

5 Jul 2016

Proscia completes $1M seed round of financing to advance cancer diagnosis, treatment

Proscia Inc., a data solutions provider for digital pathology, announced today the completion of its $1M seed round of financing.

5 Jul 2016

Bringing healthcare home: an interview with Dr Andrew Lin

The goal of CliniCloud is to bring healthcare home. For us, what that means is a patient-centered and patient-modeled healthcare system, where we focus on the fact that consumers want access to healthcare and to a doctor. We're building an ecosystem around the tools and the software to really enable that to happen as conveniently and as affordably as possible.

5 Jul 2016

New software may help doctors access multiple patient files for cancer treatment

Doctors increasingly work with large quantities of digitized patient data - and yet the insights it contains often remain unexploited. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a software program that allows doctors to extract information from multiple patient files to quickly obtain new pointers for the treatment of prostate cancer.

4 Jul 2016

Novel robotic rectum may help clinicians detect prostate cancer

A robotic rectum may help doctors and nurses detect prostate cancer. The technology, which consists of prosthetic buttocks and rectum with in-built robotic technology, has been developed by scientists at Imperial College London.

4 Jul 2016

Scientists develop suitable test prosthetics for cyclists

Disabled cyclists will be among those competing at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in September 2016. Ensuring top performance calls for prosthetics of superior design, but tailoring them to handle the combination of movements cyclists make has always been a problem.

4 Jul 2016

New software tool could help routinely measure brain atrophy in MS patients

The loss of brain tissue, called brain atrophy, is a normal part of aging, but multiple sclerosis (MS) accelerates the process.

1 Jul 2016

New optimized cell cultivation solution from Cleaver Scientific

proSET is an exciting new range of benchtop scale fermentation systems from Cleaver Scientific designed to provide an optimized cell cultivation solution for applications including growth of sensitive and fragile mammalian and insect cells.

From Cleaver Scientific Ltd 1 Jul 2016

Novel therapeutic approach may be effective for disrupting bacterial biofilms

Biofilms are communities of bacteria that adhere to a surface and are nearly impossible to eradicate when they are pathogenic, or disease-causing.

30 Jun 2016

New bioinformatics tool can analyse 40,000 proteins per minute

Biology and computing have joined forces to create a piece of software that analyses mutations in proteins; these mutations are potential inducers of diseases, such as cancer.

30 Jun 2016

Using NMR to investigate intrinsically disordered proteins: an interview with Dr Isabella Felli

“IDPs” is now a widely used acronym that stands for “intrinsically disordered proteins.” It is the term generally used by the scientific community to refer to a wide variety of proteins that do not have a stable 3D structure and are instead characterized by a high extent of local mobility, disorder and many conformers that are accessible at room temperature.

From Bruker BioSpin Group 30 Jun 2016

Google Glass shows promising plastic surgical application in operating room

Plastic surgeons see some clear advantages of using Google Glass in the operating room, reports a survey study in the July issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

30 Jun 2016

Virtual tissue technology helps identify new drug target to combat polycystic kidney disease

Using virtual tissue technology, researchers at Indiana University have identified a potential new drug target in the fight against polycystic kidney disease, an illness with no effective FDA-approved treatment that affects 200,000 people per year in the United States.

28 Jun 2016

RepeatAnalyzer improves scientists' ability to identify, manage bacterial strains

Washington State University researchers have developed a new software tool that will improve scientists' ability to identify and understand bacterial strains and accelerate vaccine development.

28 Jun 2016

Novel suite of computer algorithms can accurately predict behavior of gut microbiome

A team of investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Massachusetts have developed a suite of computer algorithms that can accurately predict the behavior of the microbiome - the vast collection of microbes living on and inside the human body.

28 Jun 2016

The future of simulated teaching methods

In healthcare, we have physicians, nurses and paramedics who know the textbook by heart and know exactly what they need to do, but have never experienced the procedure first-hand, or they have no experience responding to adverse events that may occur.

24 Jun 2016

New study finds many healthcare providers underestimate actual radiation dose from CT scans

Computed tomography (CT) scans are an invaluable diagnostic tool in modern medicine, but they do come at a price: exposing patients to potentially dangerous ionizing radiation.

24 Jun 2016

Software News and Research

World’s most intelligent prosthetic limb? An interview with Professor Saeed Zahedi

Experts discuss potential of DNA origami

BioTek Instruments expands in Canada

New method uses computer to scan esophagus images for signs of esophageal cancer

Proscia completes $1M seed round of financing to advance cancer diagnosis, treatment

Bringing healthcare home: an interview with Dr Andrew Lin

New software may help doctors access multiple patient files for cancer treatment

Novel robotic rectum may help clinicians detect prostate cancer

Scientists develop suitable test prosthetics for cyclists

New software tool could help routinely measure brain atrophy in MS patients

New optimized cell cultivation solution from Cleaver Scientific

Novel therapeutic approach may be effective for disrupting bacterial biofilms

New bioinformatics tool can analyse 40,000 proteins per minute

Using NMR to investigate intrinsically disordered proteins: an interview with Dr Isabella Felli

Google Glass shows promising plastic surgical application in operating room

Virtual tissue technology helps identify new drug target to combat polycystic kidney disease

RepeatAnalyzer improves scientists' ability to identify, manage bacterial strains

Novel suite of computer algorithms can accurately predict behavior of gut microbiome

The future of simulated teaching methods

New study finds many healthcare providers underestimate actual radiation dose from CT scans

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