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New method enhances precision in bionic limb movement interpretation

Despite enormous progress in the past two decades, the intentional control of bionic prostheses remains a challenge and the subject of intensive research.

31 Oct 2025

Novel nanoparticles can deliver an immune-stimulating molecule directly to ovarian tumors

Cancer immunotherapy, which uses drugs that stimulate the body's immune cells to attack tumors, is a promising approach to treating many types of cancer. However, it doesn't work well for some tumors, including ovarian cancer.

31 Oct 2025

AI-powered app turns consumer wearables into sleep study devices

An app that turns consumer Apple Watches into tools for highly sophisticated sleep stage monitoring was developed by team of researchers led by professor Joyita Dutta at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

30 Oct 2025

Integrating physicochemical laws into future AI models for better drug design

Proteins play a key role not only in the body, but also in medicine: they either serve as active ingredients, such as enzymes or antibodies, or they are target structures for drugs.

30 Oct 2025

Researchers propose five key questions for effective adoption of AI in clinical practice

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a powerful tool that physicians can use to help diagnose their patients and has great potential to improve accuracy, efficiency and patient safety, it has its drawbacks.

30 Oct 2025

Low-cost biosensor identifies altered protein levels associated with psychiatric disorders

Brazilian researchers have developed a low-cost, portable biosensor that can quickly identify a protein whose altered levels are associated with psychiatric disorders, such as depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

30 Oct 2025

AI indelibly transforms solid tumor drug development

Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reshaping the landscape of solid tumor (ST) drug development.

29 Oct 2025

3D-printing soft robot delivers hydrogels to the vocal cord surgical site to reconstruct tissues

After vocal cord surgery, many patients develop stiff vocal folds that impact their ability to speak. Hydrogels can help prevent this by promoting healing, but delivering hydrogels to the vocal cords is difficult.

29 Oct 2025

MAGIC: A powerful tool to understand the origin of cancer

The human body relies on precise genetic instructions to function, and cancer begins when these instructions get scrambled.

29 Oct 2025

Harnessing bioinformatics to fast-track the discovery of spinal cord injury drug

Spinal cord injury (SCI) remains a major unmet medical challenge, often resulting in permanent paralysis and disability with no effective treatments.

29 Oct 2025

New imaging technique maps medication distribution across skin layers

A new study by the Hebrew University has developed a rapid imaging method that reveals how drugs move through the skin, in just ten minutes.

29 Oct 2025

AI-driven ECG improves detection of severe heart attacks

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze electrocardiograms (ECG) improved detection of severe heart attacks, including those that presented with unconventional symptoms, or atypical ECG patterns, and reduced false positives, according to a study published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions and simultaneously presented at TCT 2025 in San Francisco.

29 Oct 2025

Novel AI ECG model outperforms standard triage for acute coronary occlusion

29 Oct 2025

Purdue researchers develop 30-second vaccine quality tool

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the need to rapidly develop, produce and distribute large quantities of new vaccines. A team of researchers at Purdue University and Merck & Co. Inc., known as Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. outside of the U.S. and Canada, has now introduced a new analytical tool that could help pharmaceutical companies boost vaccine production with rapid monitoring and analysis.

29 Oct 2025

AI-powered LifeClock forecasts diseases years before symptoms appear

Researchers have developed LifeClock, an AI-driven biological clock trained on over 24 million electronic health records to estimate biological age across the human lifespan. The model accurately predicts disease risk years in advance, revealing distinct developmental and aging processes.

28 Oct 2025

Wireless retinal implant restores sight in patients blinded by advanced macular degeneration

A new trial shows that a wireless subretinal implant, the PRIMA system, restored central vision in patients with geographic atrophy caused by age-related macular degeneration. After one year, 81% achieved clinically meaningful vision gains and most could read at home using prosthetic vision.

28 Oct 2025

First self-powered spinal implant can transmit real-time data from inside the body

A collaboration between civil engineering and neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh could change how spinal fusion surgery is performed and monitored. Associate Professors Amir Alavi, Nitin Agarwal, and D. Kojo Hamilton have received a $352,213 National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21 grant to develop the first self-powered spinal implant capable of transmitting real-time data from inside the body.

28 Oct 2025

New imaging technique can map the blood flow of an entire organ in 4D

For the first time, a team of Inserm researchers from the Physics for Medicine Institute (Inserm/ESPCI Paris-PSL/CNRS) has succeeded in mapping the blood flow of an entire organ in animals (heart, kidney and liver) with great precision, in four dimensions: 3D + time.

28 Oct 2025

Using AI and citizen science for vector-borne disease surveillance

Researchers from the University of South Florida have used artificial intelligence and citizen science to identify what may be the first specimen of Anopheles stephensi - an invasive and deadly malaria-carrying mosquito - ever detected in Madagascar.

28 Oct 2025

AI tool can help detect women at higher risk of developing interval breast cancers

In a study of more than 100,000 screening mammograms, researchers demonstrated the potential of an AI tool to help identify women at higher risk of developing interval breast cancers, breast cancer that is diagnosed between regular screening mammograms.

28 Oct 2025

Device / Technology News

New method enhances precision in bionic limb movement interpretation

Novel nanoparticles can deliver an immune-stimulating molecule directly to ovarian tumors

AI-powered app turns consumer wearables into sleep study devices

Integrating physicochemical laws into future AI models for better drug design

Researchers propose five key questions for effective adoption of AI in clinical practice

Low-cost biosensor identifies altered protein levels associated with psychiatric disorders

AI indelibly transforms solid tumor drug development

3D-printing soft robot delivers hydrogels to the vocal cord surgical site to reconstruct tissues

MAGIC: A powerful tool to understand the origin of cancer

Harnessing bioinformatics to fast-track the discovery of spinal cord injury drug

New imaging technique maps medication distribution across skin layers

AI-driven ECG improves detection of severe heart attacks

Novel AI ECG model outperforms standard triage for acute coronary occlusion

Purdue researchers develop 30-second vaccine quality tool

AI-powered LifeClock forecasts diseases years before symptoms appear

Wireless retinal implant restores sight in patients blinded by advanced macular degeneration

First self-powered spinal implant can transmit real-time data from inside the body

New imaging technique can map the blood flow of an entire organ in 4D

Using AI and citizen science for vector-borne disease surveillance

AI tool can help detect women at higher risk of developing interval breast cancers

Redefining control and consistency in anaerobic microbiome workflows

AI in Healthcare: How generative tools are transforming clinical practice

The future of automation: Machine learning–driven hepatocyte and organoid counting

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