Biotechnology & Biomedical

Electrical Stitches Speed Wound Healing in Rats

October 8, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

Surgical stitches that generate electricity can help wounds heal faster in rats, a new study from China finds.In the body, electricity helps the heart beat, causes muscles to contract, and enables the body to communicate with the brain. Now scientists are increasingly using electricity to promote healing with so-called electroceuticals.…

September 27, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

Neuralink’s visual prosthesis Blindsight has been designated a breakthrough device by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which potentially sets the technology on a fast track to approval.In confirming the news, an FDA spokesperson emphasized that the designation does not mean that Blindsight is yet considered safe or effective. Technologies…

September 24, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

If you’ve ever tried to get a bandage to stick to your elbow, you understand the difficulty in creating wearable devices that attach securely to the human body. Add digital electronic circuitry, and the problem becomes more complicated. Now include the need for the device to fix breaks and damage…

August 29, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

Blood pressure is one of the critical vital signs for health, but standard practice can only capture a snapshot, using a pressure cuff to squeeze arteries. Continuous readings are available, but only by inserting a transducer directly into an artery via a needle and catheter. Thanks to researchers at Caltech,…

August 8, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

Tech startups are stepping up to meet the needs of 60 million people worldwide who use opioids, representing about 1 percent of the world’s adult population. In the United States, deaths involving synthetic opioids have risen 1,040 percent from 2013 to 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic and continued prevalence of fentanyl…

July 22, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

Cochlear implants—the neural prosthetic cousins of standard hearing aids—can be a tremendous boon for people with profound hearing loss. But many would-be users are turned off by the device’s cumbersome external hardware, which must be worn to process signals passing through the implant. So researchers have been working to make…

July 20, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

A Barcelona-based startup called Inbrain Neuroelectronics has produced a novel brain implant made of graphene, and is gearing up for its first-in-human test this summer. The technology is a type of brain-computer interface (BCI), which have garnered interest because they record signals from the brain and transmit them to a…

July 18, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

In the United States alone, more than 100,000 people currently need a lifesaving organ transplant. Instead of waiting for donors, one way to solve this crisis in the future is to assemble replacement organs with bio-printing—3D printing that uses inks containing living cells. Scientists in Israel have found that origami…

July 1, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

For the first time, a small group of patients with amputations below the knee were able to control the movements of their prosthetic legs through neural signals—rather than relying on programmed cycles for all or part of a motion—and resume walking with a natural gait. The achievement required a specialized…

June 13, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

Last month when Google introduced its new AI search tool, called AI Overviews, the company seemed confident that it had tested the tool sufficiently, noting in the announcement that “people have already used AI Overviews billions of times through our experiment in Search Labs.” The tool doesn’t just return links…

Electrical Stitches Speed Wound Healing in Rats

Neuralink’s Blindsight Device Is Likely to Disappoint

Stretchy Wearables Can Now Heal Themselves

New Device Listens for Blood Pressure

Startups Launch Life-Saving Tech for the Opioid Crisis

Biocompatible Mic Could Lead to Better Cochlear Implants

Next-Gen Brain Implant Uses a Graphene Chip

Origami Helps Implant Sensors in Bio-Printed Tissue

The Best Bionic Leg Yet

Is AI Search a Medical Misinformation Disaster?

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law