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Clothing with a brain: 'Smart fabrics' that monitor health
'Intelligent' Materials To Revolutionize Surgical Implants
A Surgeon You Can Swallow
Chip tests blood proteins in less than 10 minutes
Caltech Scientists Develop "Barcode Chip" for Cheap, Fast Blood Tests
Hospital-on-a-chip could replace battlefield medic
MRI discovery could lead to portable machines
Intelligent Pill
Philips' intelligent pill targets drug development and treatment for digestive tract diseases
(illustration below)
Honeycomb to mend a broken heart
(with movie)
Working artificial heart by 2011
Inkjet printing finds a way to the heart
Longer-Lasting Artificial Eyes
Three dimensional scans could revolutionise brain surgery
Doctors, Ph.D.s to edit new Wikipedia of medical information
Smart contact lens feels the pressure of glaucoma
(illustration below)
Laser 'microscalpel' targets individual cancer cells
Laser headband brings Alzheimer's out of the shadows
Self-Assembling Tissues - Living Legos can be directed to form tissue-like structures
Human blood vessels grown in mice
Medpedia: Online Encyclopedia of Medicine
Artificial eyeball does away with distorted images
(illustration below)
First red blood cells grown in the lab
A Blueprint to Regenerate Limbs
Lab-grown tendons gradually fade to bone
An Artificial Pancreas
Tiny Drug Transporters
A Helping Hand for Surgery
Robot will be able to detect, destroy breast cancer cells
Stem cells from human fat convert into beating heart cells
(with movie link)
Drug grenades explode right on target
(movie below)
Computer circuit built from brain cells
Ultrasound shown to exert remote control of brain circuits
Scientists develop artificial heart that beats like the real thing
Battlefield Medic on a Chip
Scientists clone from frozen mice
Japanese researchers make brain tissues from stem cells
Heart-powered pacemaker taps beats for energy
Backpacks for Cells
'Invisible' transplant organs now in sight
Ten-Minute Blood Test
Regenerating Neurons in Eyes
Smart drug implant has batteries included
Heart disease 'reversed in mice'
Diagnosing Disease with Paper and Tape
Injectable artificial bone developed
Tiny delivery system with a big impact on cancer cells
Cancer, Carefully Illuminated
A Way to Spot Cancer Early
Science's Breakthrough Of The Year: Cellular Reprogramming
(for 2008)
Scientists Hack Cellphone to Analyze Blood, Detect Disease, Help Developing Nations
Biomedical researchers create artificial human bone marrow in a test tube
Potentially Disruptive Antibody Sequencing Technology Developed
A Moment Of Tooth
Paper lab-on-a-chip makes disease tests affordable
Researchers produce 'neural fingerprint' of speech recognition
Virtual hand gets under the skin
Biomedical Advances
