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Medical & healthcare

Panel session: Getting new product development right

Biodegradable sensor offers safer insights into brain chemistry

The image shows a life-size model of part of a bronchial tree built from anatomical data. A section of the magnetic tentacle robot is seen on the right (Image: Leeds University)

Magnetic tentacle robot navigates smallest bronchial tubes

New MRI lights up cancerous tissue for improved detection

Subjects were instructed to perform reach-and-grasp movements to designate the locations of the target in three-dimensional space. (a) Subjects A and B were provided the visual cue as a real tennis ball at one of four pseudo-randomised locations. (b) Subjects A and B were provided the visual cue as a virtual reality clip showing a sequence of five stages of a reach-and-grasp movement (Image: KAIST)

Neural signals decoded to control robotic arm

Image credit: NTU Singapore

NTU team develops ‘trojan horse’ drug delivery system

3D bioprinting produces kidney tissue

VR offers improved outcomes for congenital heart disease surgery

ICVP artificial vision prosthesis successfully implanted

Robot-assisted surgery to improve cancer procedures

C2I 2021: Healthcare & Medical shortlist

Implant allows patients with paralysis to walk and swim