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Soft magnetic muscles power innovative origami robots for biomedical use

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move.

21 Oct 2025

Researchers develop a novel approach to monitor CD8⁺ T cell activity over time

The ability of immune cells-particularly CD8+ T cells-to launch a rapid burst of proliferation inside tumors is key to the success of modern day cancer immunotherapies.

21 Oct 2025

New noninvasive device measures brain blood flow using laser speckle technology

Measuring blood flow in the brain is critical for responding to a range of neurological problems, including stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and vascular dementia.

21 Oct 2025

New AI-driven approach identifies treatments to reprogram and destroy cancer stem cells

Scientists at University of California San Diego have developed a new approach to destroying cancer stem cells – hard-to-find cells that help cancers spread, come back after treatment and resist therapy.

21 Oct 2025

Introducing the Metrohm i-Raman NxG

Introducing the i-Raman NxG: a next-gen Raman spectrometer enhancing precision in quality control with advanced features and versatile software integration.

From Metrohm AG 21 Oct 2025

New virtual reality training task can help stroke survivors living with visuospatial neglect

A team of researchers at the University of Jyväskylä (JYU) has developed and tested a new virtual reality (VR) training task designed to help stroke survivors living with visuospatial neglect (VSN), a disabling condition that affects attention and awareness of one side of space.

21 Oct 2025

Yokogawa announces YNOW2026 Users Conference dates

Yokogawa Corporation of America is pleased to confirm the dates for the next Yokogawa Users Conference and Exhibition, YNOW2026, taking place in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 1–3, 2026.

21 Oct 2025

New chip restores reading ability for macular degeneration patients

A tiny wireless chip implanted in the back of the eye and a pair of high-tech glasses have partially restored vision to people with an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration. In a clinical trial led by Stanford Medicine researchers and international collaborators, 27 out of 32 participants had regained the ability to read a year after receiving the device.

21 Oct 2025

Prima implant offers new hope for vision restoration in atrophic AMD

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) causes progressive vision loss in many elderly people, and no treatment is available for the so-called atrophic form of the disease.

20 Oct 2025

New drug testing analyzer from Siemens Healthineers raises the bar for court, military, and forensics testing, offering clinical-quality results

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From Siemens Healthineers 20 Oct 2025

CogLinks model reveals how the brain adapts to changing rules

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning falters, thoughts and behavior can go astray.

18 Oct 2025

Stroke experts call for ethical guardrails as AI expands in clinical research

As artificial intelligence (AI) use continues to grow in nearly every industry, it is important to establish guardrails to make sure the technology is used ethically and responsibly. This is especially true in the field of medicine, where errors can be a matter of life and death and patient information must be protected.

17 Oct 2025

New 3D human brain tissue platform integrates all major brain cell types into a single culture

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture.

17 Oct 2025

Improving logical reasoning in large language models for medical use

Large language models (LLMs) can store and recall vast quantities of medical information, but their ability to process this information in rational ways remains variable.

17 Oct 2025

Your web habits can identify you: Just four websites can reveal who you are

Browsing behavior acts as a digital fingerprint, with just a few top websites enabling 95% user identifiability, raising concerns for online privacy.

17 Oct 2025

AI predicts cell responses to drugs and genetic changes

Controlling the state of a cell in a desired direction is one of the central challenges in life sciences, including drug development, cancer treatment, and regenerative medicine.

16 Oct 2025

LassoESM accelerates discovery of therapeutic peptides

In the hunt for new therapeutics for cancer and infectious diseases, lasso peptides prove to be a catch.

16 Oct 2025

New vaccine label offers real-time heat exposure detection

A color-changing label could help prevent millions of vaccine doses from going to waste, say scientists from the University of Surrey. The innovation, now being commercialized through a partnership with MM PACKAGING GmbH (MM) Group and leading materials specialists Advanced Material Development Ltd (AMD), provides a low-cost and reliable way to show whether vaccines have been exposed to damaging heat.

16 Oct 2025

Ingestible bioprinter offers minimally invasive tissue repair

Soft tissue injuries of the gastrointestinal tract, like ulcers or hemorrhages, can currently be treated only with some form of surgery, which is invasive and may not result in permanent repair.

16 Oct 2025

New technology enables fast and durable 3D-printed dental crowns

University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed a technology that enables same-day, 3D-printed dental restorations made of zirconia, the gold-standard material for permanent dental work.

16 Oct 2025