In a historic first, doctors have transplanted brain cells to treat Parkinson’s disease. The California patient became the first to undergo the procedure successfully.Harvard University stem cell biologist Dr Kwang-Soo Kim gained brief notoriety in 2009 when he...
Amputees can now experience artificial sensation via an arm prosthesis. This allows amputees to know everything they touch. Something that makes it much easier to do everything from picking a grapevine to running an excavator.The arm prosthesis has been designed by...
AI researchers in Sweden and cardiac specialists Brazil have collaborated to build an AI tool that can interpret ECG and detect diseases affecting the heart. The tool can today diagnose cardiac fibrillation and five other common ECG abnormalities.The AI โโsystem has...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an indigenous malaria case refers to malaria being โcontracted locally with no evidence of importation and no direct link to transmission from an imported case.โ For the WHO to give Malaysia an official malaria-free...
By installing a kind of fuel cell in a thin flexible rubber material, researchers from Caltech in the US have created a new type of electronic skin . The biggest news with this e-skin is that it does not need any battery but can get all the necessary energy from the...
Until now, livers could be stored safely outside the body for only a few hours. With the novel perfusion technology, livers – and even injured livers – can now be kept alive outside of the body for an entire week. This is a major breakthrough in...