When it comes to medical research, technology is looking at new ways to help track down and fight every ailment under the sun. The latest research to come to light is in the ...
July 3, 2016 at 5:20 pm by Gareth Andrews
A team of doctors from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine have become the first to be approved to begin trials using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing ...
June 23, 2016 at 7:00 pm by Ashley Allen
MIT researchers have developed an ingestible robot, made from folded meat, which can perform tasks within the stomach that range from removing foreign objects that have been ...
May 13, 2016 at 8:40 pm by Ashley Allen
3D Printers have helped medicine come a long way, with the ability to customise and create things in an easy and cost-effective way that previously would have been impossible ...
February 28, 2016 at 11:00 am by Gareth Andrews
Gauss Guns are often a thing of fiction. While they have been designed, achieving their aim is difficult due to the size and energy required to fire them. For those who are ...
June 28, 2015 at 12:58 am by Gareth Andrews
An artificial intelligence has, with absolute autonomy (i.e. no input from humans), cracked a 120-year-old biological mystery. A team of computer scientists and biologists ...
June 6, 2015 at 6:55 am by Ashley Allen
A new startup, sponsored by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a new piece of medical tech that can draw blood, painlessly, without ...
May 9, 2015 at 6:58 am by Ashley Allen
Back in 2013, Californian 3D graphic artist Michael Balzer took it upon himself to intervene in the treatment of his wife’s brain tumour, and saved her sight in the process. ...
January 15, 2015 at 2:55 pm by Ashley Allen
General Electric has been showing of the capabilities of its new computerised tomography (CT) scanner, and the results are stunning. The Revolution CT, though introduced in ...
January 12, 2015 at 4:54 pm by Ashley Allen
Scientists at the Temple University School of Medicine in the USA claim that they have successfully managed to remove the HIV virus from cultured human cells for the first ...
July 22, 2014 at 10:27 am by Ryan Martin
Modern medicine nowadays tries to ‘fix’ us with pills and drugs, even when the latter type of medication proves to be ineffective. A natural phenomenon that we ...
July 20, 2014 at 10:42 am by Gabriel Roşu
A new project is being funded by the Gates Foundation that could end the need to take a daily contraceptive pill. Instead of taking one pill a day, their project could result ...
July 8, 2014 at 6:01 am by Peter Donnell
Remember the hit 1997 movie Face/Off starting Nicolas Cage and John Travolta? Well due to medical procedure advancements the idea of transplanting faces could soon be a ...
January 5, 2014 at 9:02 am by Peter Edward
When scientists from Turkey created glow in the dark Rabbits in August 2013, we wondered whether or not this interesting experiment would continue. Well it has, a team from ...
January 2, 2014 at 10:16 am by Peter Edward
