Source MIT News Move over, Alexa and Siri. Talking Mabu robot provides one-to-one support while relaying information to doctors. The Mabu robot, with its small yellow body and friendly expression, serves, literally, as the face of the care management startup Catalia Health. The most innovative part of the company’s solution, however, lies behind Mabu’s large
3D-printed thick vascularized tissue constructs for organ engineering and regenerative medicine In this video, the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS team uses a customizable 3D bioprinting method to build a thick vascularized tissue structure comprising human stem cells, collective matrix, and blood vessel endothelial cells. Their work sets the stage for advancement of tissue replacement
In the recently published, ‘Hydroxyapatite Structures Created by Additive Manufacturing with Extruded Polymer,’ Katherine Vanesa López Ambrosio (School of Advanced Materials Discovery / Colorado State University at Fort Collins) tackles 3D printed implants for bone regeneration. While surgeons have been using conventional implants with some success, there is always a risk of infection and the potential
In ‘Synthesis, characterization and 3D printing of linear and star-shaped poly(propylene fumarate) for medical applications,’ Yuanyuan Luo offers a PhD dissertation for The University of Akron on the subject of additive manufacturing and new polymer synthetics for use in the medical realm. As materials science continues to expand, researchers are drawn to exploring the uses of 3D
Both digital and genomics biomarkers are important in diagnosing and treating disease. Apple is playing a key role in driving this revolution by crowdsourcing patient-level data through its Apple Watches. Apple’s Apple Research app will join with the Apple Watch and the iPhone to crowdsource health data for future research. Those with an Apple Watch will be able
If healthcare organizations want to succeed in an environment of digital transformation, they must bring about participatory health. That shift will require providers to be grounded in patient engagement and patient-centered care—by being “on-demand, connected and data-driven.” That’s the contention of a new report from the American Hospital Association’s Center for Health Innovation, and EY, which examines
Source Army.mil Doctors from 12 specialties taught 26 participants on required virtual health presentation skills at the eighth tri-service, inter-agency Virtual Health Patient Presenter course Sept. 9 – 13 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. The one-week course gave nurses, Army medics, Air Force medical technicians and Navy corpsmen hands-on instruction from specialty physicians and physician
The School of Engineering and Applied Science announced late last month that a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor received $300,000 from the American Heart Association to develop a device that can print tissue used for repairing heart damage. The AHA – a nonprofit organization that funds cardiovascular research – granted a three-year award to Lijie
Biofabrication holds great potential to revolutionize important industries in the health, food, and textile sectors, but its translation to market is still challenging. Pedro F. Costa in a paper newly published on Trends in Biotechnology analyzes the current state of innovation and commercialization in biofabrication and try to assess its limitations, strengths, and future progress.
Researchers have developed a neural network approach that can accurately identify congestive heart failure with 100% accuracy through analysis of just one raw electrocardiogram (ECG) heartbeat, a new study reports. Nearly 10 percent of adults over the age of 65 suffer from some kind of congestive heart failure (CHF). There are a variety of different
