The Israeli company “StimuHeal” has introduced a series of products developed to assist the human body’s mechanisms in healing damaged tissues. These devices, each of which was designed to focus on a specific problem, are based on different patterns of ...
A research group from Bristol has found that a naturally occurring protein, known as nerve growth factor, can dramatically improve the survival of heart cells and reduce heart cell damage following a heart attack in mice. The researchers hope that ...
Two Professors at the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem have succeeded in improving the condition of MS and ALS patients by using stem cells transplants. The researchers extracted stem cells from each patient’s bone marrow, cultured them, and then injected ...
In the George Lucas classic Star Wars, hero Luke Skywalker’s arm is severed and amputated during a lightsaber fight and consequently fitted with a bionic arm that he can use as if it were his own limb. At the time ...
Two separate American research groups have been performing similar experiments on ion channels, which are pores in our nerve cells, to identify the channels’ key functional parts. The progress made in this field may lead to development of new drugs ...
A research group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has developed a device for ultra-low field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The device captured its first, blurry shots of a human brain, revealing brain activity and structure. The ...
In collaboration between high-energy physicists from the University of California in Santa Cruz, and neuroscientists from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, a ganglion cell in the retina of primates was found to react to movement. The cell was ...
A new robot developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburg is able to reach distant locations on the surface of a beating heart, and to carry out several operations on the heart’s surface. The HeartLander ...
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel computational image-forming technique for optical microscopy, called ISAM. The new technique is capable of producing three-dimensional images even from blurry, out-of-focus data. The new tool will improve the ...
HP and Crospon have developed a skin patch which uses microneedles that barely penetrate the skin. The microneedles can replace conventional injections and deliver drugs through the skin without causing any pain. The skin patch technology also enables delivery of ...
